Professor Lauren Benton FBA
The global history of European empires; legal history of the British and Spanish empires; the history of international law; legal theory
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Current post
Yale University Barton M Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Suraiya Faroqhi FBA
Social history with a focus on the early modern Ottoman Empire (1500s to early 1800s), especially concerned with Istanbul and the towns of Anatolia; comparative history of artisans, using Ottoman archival records to analyse their social positions, the conditions under which they worked and the products of their labour
Professor Annabel Brett FBA
History of later medieval and early modern political thought, focusing on philosophy of rights, law, nature, political community and international law
