Lauren Benton

thumb|Lauren Benton Lauren Benton (born 1956) is an American historian. Quotes Historical actors on all sides were engaging in what I call “legal politics”—that is, they were using and citing law strategically while enmeshed in multi-sided conflicts and relationships. In the process, they were creating and reinforcing regimes of limited violence with very specific openings to extreme violence. We should heap skepticism on any group launching a small war or brief attack claiming that they possess workable mechanisms for keeping small wars small. Lauren Benton & Hendrik Simon, Between War and Peace – On the Logic and Language of Imperial Violence. An Interview with Lauren Benton, Völkerrechtsblog, 13.09.2024 About Benton She has made a uniquely powerful case that the history of international law must take into account not simply the arguments of prominent legal theorists but also the actions and arguments of a host of actors from all over the world, what she has called "vernacular forms of political theory." Jennifer Pitts Lauren Benton has done more than any other scholar in recent generations to reintegrate global history with legal history. With archival tenacity and broad conceptual sweep, she has used fine-grained microhistory in the service of world-spanning arguments about the tentative distribution of imperial power, the informal elaboration of international law, and the paradoxes of sovereignty in a world unevenly colonized and incompletely decolonized. David Armitage External links Lauren Benton (historian) Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:Historians from the United States Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni Category:Yale University faculty Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Women born in the 1950s