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Lauren BentonProfessor
of
History
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Chair, Department of History
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1987
Email:
lauren.benton@nyu.edu
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Areas of Research/Interest: Atlantic world, legal history, comparative imperial history.
Select Publications:
Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2002). (World History Association Book Award; James Willard Hurst Prize)
Invisible Factories: The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain. Albany: State University of New York Press (1990).
The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries, eds., Alejandro Portes, Manuel Castells, and Lauren Benton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1989).
“Spatial Geographies of Empire,” Itinerario 30, 3 (2006): 19-34.
“The Geography of Quasi-Sovereignty: Westlake, Maine, and the Legal Politics of Colonial Enclaves,” Institute for International Law and Justice, IILJ Working Paper 2006/5 (History and Theory of International Law Series).
“Constitutions and Empires,” Law & Social Inquiry, 31, 1 (2006): 177-198.
“Legal Spaces of Empire: Piracy and the Origins of Ocean Regionalism,” in Comparative Studies in Society and History, October Vol. 47, 4 (2005): 700-724.
"'The Laws of this Country’: Foreigners and the Legal Construction of Sovereignty in Uruguay, 1830-1875," Law and History Review. 19, 3 (2001): 479-512.
"Making Order Out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Politics in the Spanish Colonial Borderlands," Law and Social Inquiry. 26, 2 (2001): 373-401.
"Colonial Law and Cultural Difference: Jurisdictional Politics and the Formation of the Colonial State." Comparative Studies in Society and History. 41, 3 (2000): 563-588.
"The Legal Regime of the South Atlantic World: Jurisdictional Politics as Institutional Order." Journal of World History Vol. 11, 1 (2000): 27-56.
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