America's empire expanded dramatically following the
Spanish-American War of 1898. The United States quickly annexed the
Philippines and Puerto Rico, seized control over Cuba and the
Panama Canal Zone, and extended political and financial power
throughout Latin America. This age of empire, Benjamin Allen Coates
argues, was also 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. Just as international law
shaped empire, so too did empire shape international law. Legalist
Empire shows how the American Society of International Law was
animated by the same notions of "civilization" that justified the
expansion of empire overseas. Using the private papers and
published writings of such figures as Elihu Root, John Bassett
Moore, and James Brown Scott, Coates shows how the newly-created
international law profession merged European influences with trends
in American jurisprudence, while appealing to elite notions of
order, reform, and American identity. By projecting an image of the
United States as a unique force for law and civilization, legalists
reconciled American exceptionalism, empire, and an international
rule of law. Under their influence the nation became the world's
leading advocate for the creation of an international court.
Although the legalist vision of world peace through voluntary
adjudication foundered in the interwar period, international
lawyers-through their ideas and their presence in halls of
power-continue to infuse vital debates about America's global role
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