Lauren Benton

Lauren Benton

Vanderbilt University

Comparative Legal History

Statement: My research project, 'Legalities of Small Wars in European Empires, 1400-1900,' examines widely recurring practices of violence and peacemaking in the early modern world and analyzes their effects on regional and global orders, and their relation to interpolity law.

lbenton@ias.edu

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