Prof. Dr. Simone Glanert

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

 

Dr Simone Glanert (PhD Sorbonne; LLM Cornell) is a Reader at Kent Law School (UK), where she directs the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law and the 2+2 Programme 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 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’. 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.