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Lauren Benton is a leading comparative and world historian whose research focuses on law in European empires, the history of international law, and Atlantic world history. Benton is the author of four books, including Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which was awarded the J. Willard Hurst Prize and the World History Association Book Prize; A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2010); and Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850 (Harvard University Press, 2016), coauthored with Lisa Ford. Benton is president-elect of the American Society for Legal History and the recipient of the 2019 Toynbee Prize for significant contributions to global history.