Allison Powers Useche. Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law. Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Traces how ordinary people used international law to hold the United States accountable for state violence during the first decades of the twentieth century
- Shows how key transformations in the legal architecture of the early twentieth-century United States Empire were the product of efforts to insulate the US government from international scrutiny
- Rethinks histories of the Monroe and Calvo Doctrines in the Americas
- Offers a new way of understanding formations of modern international law through attention to erasure in legal archives