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Mary Ann Glendon
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Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University and past president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. She is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and currently serves as vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. She writes and teaches in the fields of human rights, comparative law, constitutional law, and political theory. Glendon is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (serving as its president from 2003 to 2013), and the International Academy of Comparative Law. Her publications include, among others, The Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt (2011), Traditions in Turmoil (2006), and A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2001). She earned J.D. and MCL degrees from the University of Chicago's Law School.
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