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Lauren A. Benton - New York University (USA)
New York University
6 Washington Square North, 1st floor
New York, NY 10003
T: 212-998-8040/646-341-3846
[email protected]
EDUCATION:
The Johns Hopkins University. Ph.D., Anthropology and History, 1987. M.A. History, 1983;
M.A. Anthropology 1984.
Harvard University. A.B. cum laude, 1978. Field of concentration: Economics.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS
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05-06
2004
2003
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1999
1998
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Abu Dhabi Institute, Humanities Research Fellowship Program grant ($5.5 million, co-PI)
Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University.
PEWS Book Award, American Sociological Association
World History Association Book Award
James Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association
Fulbright Foundation research/lecturer award, Uruguay
Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History, New York University School of Law
Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant
CURRENT UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS:
Silver Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science;
Professor of History, Affiliate Professor of Law
New York University
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
2013. Lauren Benton and Richard Ross, eds., Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850. New York
University Press.
2010. A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900. New York and
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Books (continued):
Benton Abridged CV – Page 2
2002. Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900. New York and
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (World History Association Book Award; James Willard Hurst
Book Prize; PEWS Book Award of the American Sociological Association).
1990. Invisible Factories: The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain. Albany: State
University of New York Press.
1989. Alejandro Portes, Manuel Castells, and Lauren Benton, eds., The Informal Economy:
Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Selected journal articles (published since 2000):
Forthcoming (2014). Lauren Benton and Kathryn Walker, “Law for the Empire: The Common Law in
America and the Problem of Legal Diversity,” Chicago-Kent Law Review.
2013. “Just Despots: The Cultural Construction of Imperial Constitutionalism,” in Law, Culture, and the
Humanities Vol. 9 (2): 213-236.
2012. “This Melancholy Labyrinth: The Trial of Arthur Hodge and the Boundaries of Imperial Law,”
Alabama Law Review 64: 91-122.
2012. “Introduction: Forum on Law and Empire in Global Perspective,” The American Historical Review
117(4): 1092-1100.
2012. “Una soberanía extraña: La Provincia Oriental en el mundo atlántico,” 20/10: El Mundo Atlántico y
la Modernidad Iberoamericana, 1750-1850 1: 89-107.
2011. “Abolition and Imperial Law, 1780-1820,” Journal of Commonwealth and Imperial History, Vol.
39:3, 355-374.
2011. “Historical Perspectives on Legal Pluralism,” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 3(1): 57-69 (to be
reprinted as book chapter; see below).
2011. “Toward a New Legal History of Piracy: Maritime Legalities and the Myth of Universal
Jurisdiction,” International Journal of Maritime History XXIII, No. 1, 1-15.
2010. Lauren Benton and Benjamin Straumann, “Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to
Early Modern European Practice,” Law and History Review 28 (1): 1-38.
2008. “Not Just a Concept: Institutions and the ‘Rule of Law’” Journal of Asian Studies 68 (1): 63-68.
Selected journal articles (published since 2000), continued:
Benton Abridged CV – Page 3
2008. “From International Law to Imperial Constitutions: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereignty, 18701900,” Law and History Review 26 (3): 595-620.
2007. “Empires of Exception: History, Law, and the Problem of Imperial Sovereignty,” Quaderni di
Relazioni Internazionali. December (6): 54-67.
2006. “Spatial Histories of Empire,” Itinerario 30 (3): 19-34.
2006. “Constitutions and Empires,” Law & Social Inquiry, 31 (1): 177-198.
2005. “Legal Spaces of Empire: Piracy and the Origins of Ocean Regionalism,” in Comparative Studies
in Society and History, October Vol. 47 (4): 700-724.
2004. “No Longer Odd Region Out: Repositioning Latin America in World History,” Hispanic American
Historical Review 84 (3) 423-430.
2004. “Colonizing Hawaii and Colonizing Elsewhere: U.S. and British Imperial Legal History,” Law &
Society Review (4) December, 835-842.
2001. “`The Laws of this Country’: Foreigners and the Legal Construction of Sovereignty in Uruguay,
1830-1875,” Law and History Review. 19 (3): 479-512.
2001. “Making Order Out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Politics in the Spanish Colonial Borderlands,” Law
and Social Inquiry. 26 (2): 373-401.
2000. “Colonial Law and Cultural Difference: Jurisdictional Politics and the Formation of the Colonial
State.” Comparative Studies in Society and History. (41) 3: 563-588.
2000. “The Legal Regime of the South Atlantic World: Jurisdictional Politics as Institutional Order.”
Journal of World History Vol. 11 (1) 27-56.
Selected book chapters (since 2000):
Forthcoming (2015), Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow, “Legal Encounters and the Origins of Global
Law,” in Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Sanjay Subrhahmanyam, eds. Cambridge History of the World, Vol.
6.
Forthcoming (2014). “Law and World History,” in Kenneth Curtis and Alan Karras, eds., Architects of
World History: Researching the Global Past (Wiley-Blackwell).
2013. Lauren Benton and Richard Ross, “Empires and Legal Pluralism: Jurisdiction, Sovereignty, and
Political Imagination in the Early Modern World,” pp. 1-20 in Benton and Ross, eds. Legal Pluralism and
Empire (NYU Press).
Benton Abridged CV – Page 4
Selected book chapters (since 2000), continued:
2013. Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford, “Magistrates in Empire: Convicts, Slaves, and the Remaking of Legal
Pluralism in the British Empire,” pp. 173-198 in Benton and Ross, eds. Legal Pluralism and Empire
(NYU Press).
2012. “Crime,” in Philippa Levine and John Marriott, eds, The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern
Imperial Histories (Ashgate Press), 393-406.
2012. “Historical Perspectives on Legal Pluralism,” in Caroline Sage, Michael Woolcock, and Brian
Tamanaha, eds., Legal Pluralism and Development: Scholars and Practitioners in Dialogue (Cambridge
University Press), 34-49.
2011. “Possessing Empire: Iberian Claims and Interpolity Law,” in Saliha Bellmessous, ed., Native
Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920 (Oxford University Press), 19-40.
2011. “Atlantic Law: Transformations of a Transoceanic Legal Regime,” in Philip Morgan and Nicholas
Canny, eds., Oxford Handbook on the Atlantic World, c 1450-1820 (Oxford University Press), 400-416.
2010. “Legal Problems of Empire in Gentili’s Hispanica Advocatio,” in Benedict Kingsbury and
Benjamin Straumann, eds., The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations (Oxford University Press),
269-282.
2009. “The British Atlantic in Global Context,” David Armitage and Michael Braddick, eds, The British
Atlantic World, 1500-1800, second edition. (Palgrave Macmillan)
Selected works in progress:
Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford, British Global Order: The Imperial Origins of International Law (under
contract, Harvard University Press);
“Rights and the Common Good in the Atlantic World,” (with Aaron Slater), in Pamela Slotte and Miia
Halme-Tuomisaari, eds., History of Human Rights.
“The Space between Empires: Inter-Imperial Geographies and Atlantic Regionalism” (with Jeppe
Mulich), for volume edited by Paul Stock, The Uses of Space in Early Modern History, 1500-1850.
List of additional publications, invited lectures, and professional activities provided on request.
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