Allison Powers Publishes Book: Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

Cover image of book entitled "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" by UW-Madison History Professor Allison Powers. The words "Oxford Legal History" display across the top and an image is shown of two men swinging axes at a large cultural object; the right side of the cultural object takes on the same shape but is more mechanical.In December 2024, UW-Madison History Professor Allison Powers published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law. Read more here.

 

Book Awards

Allison Powers Useche’s book, Arbitrating Empire, received the 2026 Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the field of Foreign Relations Law by the American Society of International Law. Arbitrating Empire had also previously received Honorable Mention for the 2025 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.