Congratulations to
Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University and president-elect of the American Society for Legal History, on receiving the
Toynbee Prize,
awarded biennially “for work that makes a significant contribution to
the study of global history.” She will formally accept the prize and
deliver the Toynbee Prize Lecture at the annual meeting of the American
Historical Association in Chicago, Illinois, in January 2019.
David Armitage, Harvard University,
observes, “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.”
