Mary Ann Glendon

Learned Hand Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Comparative Constitutional Law in the United States and Europe
• International Human Rights

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Comparative Law (European)
• Legal Profession

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Comparative Legal Studies
• Constitutional Law
• Faculty Expert on Western Europe
• Human Rights

Education

• University of Chicago B.A. 1959
• University of Chicago J.D. 1961
• University of Chicago Master of Comparative Law 1963

Appointments

• Visiting Professor of Law, 1974
• Professor of Law, 1986
• Learned Hand Professor of Law, 1993

Representative Publications

• Glendon, Mary Ann, Paolo Carozza & Colin Picker. Comparative Legal Traditions (West 3rd ed. 2007).
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• Glendon, Mary Ann. Traditions in Turmoil: Essays on Law, Culture and Human Rights (Sapientia Press 2006).
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• Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Random House 2001).
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  (translated into Spanish as Un mundo nuevo (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2011), http://www.amazon.com/mundo-nuevo-Spanish-Mary-Glendon/dp/6071607906/)
  
• Glendon, Mary Ann. A Nation Under Lawyers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1st ed. 1994).
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  (Paperback edition: Harvard University Press, 1996 Japanese translation: Tokyo, 2000)
  
• Glendon, Mary Ann. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse (Free Press 1991).
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  (excerpted in THE ESSENTIAL CIVIL SOCIETY READER: THE CLASSIC ESSAYS, Don Eberly ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000))
  
• Glendon, Mary Ann. The Transformation of Family Law (University of Chicago Press 1989).
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• Glendon, Mary Ann. Abortion and Divorce in Western Law (Harvard University Press 1987).
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Bibliography

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