Dr. Simone Glanert

Professor, University of Kent, UK
Nationality: Germany
Course: Cultural Communication Challenges

 

Dr Simone Glanert, a graduate of the Sorbonne and a former Rudolf B. Schlesinger Fellow at Cornell Law School, is a Reader in Law at Kent Law School, UK where she teaches comparative law, French law and legal interpretation. She has repeatedly acted as visiting professor in Canada, France, Qatar, Romania, and Switzerland.

Dr Glanert’s monograph De la traductibilité du droit (Dalloz, 2011), critically assesses the possibilities and limits of legal translation from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has edited Comparative Law – Engaging Translation (Routledge, 2014) and Law’s Hermeneutics: Other Investigations (Routledge, 2017; with Fabien Girard). More recently, Dr Glanert co-authored a book entitled Rethinking Comparative Law (Elgar, 2021; with Alexandra Mercescu and Geoffrey Samuel) and acted as guest editor for a special issue on ‘Comparative Animal Law’ released in the Global Journal of Animal Law in 2024. Dr Glanert co-hosts the annual ‘Postgraduate Workshop in Comparative Animal Law.