In March 2024, Edinburgh Law School welcomed Professor Lauren Benton as its first Dean’s Fellow. Professor Benton is the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law at Yale University; she is a world-renowned historian of law and empire. 

In this podcast episode, Professor Benton goes into further detail about her latest book project and how it fit into her overall body of work of over three decades. 

Professor Benton's latest book, ‘They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence’, was published by Princeton University Press.