Mary Ann Glendon

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Mary Ann Glendon is an American legal scholar and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, known for her work in comparative law, human rights, and legal theory.

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instanceOf diplomat
human
legal scholar
university teacher
academicDiscipline law
appointedBy George W. Bush
areaOfInfluence Catholic social thought
awardReceived National Humanities Medal
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Balliol College, Oxford
Harvard University
University of Chicago
employer Harvard Law School
Harvard University
familyName Glendon
fieldOfWork comparative law
human rights
law
legal theory
genre non-fiction
givenName Mary Ann
knownFor critique of rights discourse in American law
scholarship on comparative law
scholarship on human rights
work on family law
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
name Mary Ann Glendon
nationality American
notableIdea critique of rights inflation in political discourse
notableWork A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Abortion and Divorce in Western Law
Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
The Transformation of Family Law
Traditions in Turmoil
occupation diplomat
lawyer
professor
officeContested none noted as major electoral office
positionHeld President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts
writesAbout comparative constitutionalism
constitutional law
human rights law

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