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
A photo of Professor Lauren Benton FBA. Photo: Mara Lavitt
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
History

Current post

Yale University Barton M Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law

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Professor Mary Fulbrook FBA

20th-century German social history; structures & legacies of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic (GDR); longer-term German and European history in comparative perspective; the Holocaust and collective violence; historical and social theory

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Professor Simon Schaffer FBA

Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism

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