Prof. Dr. Simone Glanert

Professor, University of Kent, UK
Nationality: Germany
Course: Cultural Communication Challenges & Comparative Animal Law

 

Dr Simone Glanert (PhD Sorbonne; LLM Cornell) is a Reader at Kent Law School (UK), where she co-directs the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law and the Joint DegreeProgramme with Aix-Marseille Université (France). Dr Glanert, who is trained in German, French, and US Law, teaches and researches in the fields of comparative law, legal translation and interpretation, and animal law. She has repeatedly acted as visiting professor in Brazil, Canada, China, 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 editedComparative 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. She is currently preparing a co-edited Special Issue on ‘Comparative Animal Law in the Making’ to be published with the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy in 2028. In addition, she is working on a co-authored book, Comparative Animal Law, to be released with Cambridge University Press in 2029 (with Alexandra Mercescu). 

Dr Glanert initiated and co-hosts the ‘Annual Symposium in Comparative Animal Law’ in collaboration with five research units in various countries. Dr Glanert has been a long-standing member of the International Scientific Committee at the Luxembourg National Research Fund. She sits on the Advisory Editorial Board for Edinburgh University Press’s Comparative Legal Studies, Society and Justice series and has been an active member of the Executive Editorial Board of the American Journal of Comparative Law for more than ten years.