This book shows how America’s age of overseas empire in the early twentieth century was simultaneously an age of international law. Justifying America’s empire with the language of law and civilization, international lawyers–serving simultaneously as academics, leaders of the legal profession, corporate attorneys, and high-ranking government officials–became central to the conceptualization, conduct, and rationalization of US foreign policy.
Honorable Mention, Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era