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Lauren Benton (born 1956) is an American historian known for her works on the history of empires, colonial and imperial law, and the history of international law. She is (dean ) of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University, where she holds the Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Chair in History and is a (professor of history ).〔(【引用サイトリンク】Lauren Benton, dean's page, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University )〕 ==Biography== Lauren Benton was born in 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended high school at the Park School of Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland. She graduated from Harvard University in 1978, with a concentration in economics. Benton received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from Johns Hopkins University in 1987.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Benton, Lauren - Silver Dialogues - New York University )〕 Benton’s early scholarship focused on culture and economic development. Her book ''Invisible Factories: The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain'' examined industrial restructuring and the “informal sector,” or underground economy, in Spain during the transition to democracy of the 1970s and early 1980s. Benton also co-edited a volume with Alejandro Portes and Manuel Castells on the informal sector in comparative economic development. Benton radically changed the focus of her research with ''Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900,'' which mapped a novel perspective centered on the study of jurisdictional conflicts in colonial societies. Introducing the term “jurisdictional politics,” Benton analyzed the impact of jurisdictional tensions on global legal regimes, colonial state formation, and the rise of the modern international order. In 2003, ''Law and Colonial Cultures'' was awarded the World History Association Book Award and the James Willard Hurst Book Prize. Benton continues to write on law and global change and has authored other books and several dozen articles analyzing such topics as imperial sovereignty, maritime law and piracy, the legal history of abolition, and the history of international law. Her book ''A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900'' showed that empires did not seek to control vast overseas territories but instead used various legal practices to claim and rule a patchwork of enclaves and corridors. ''A Search for Sovereignty'' introduced the term “legal posturing” to describe attempts by imperial agents, including pirates, to show that they were serving the interests of sovereign sponsors. The book also traced the influence of legal conflicts in European empires on definitions of sovereignty and other elements of early international law. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lauren Benton (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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