Dr Simone Glanert

Dr Simone Glanert (PhD Sorbonne; LLM Cornell, DEA ‘Comparative Legal Studies’ Sorbonne) is a Reader at Kent Law School, where she directs the Joint Degree Programme in French Law and English Law with Aix-Marseille Université (France) and co-directs the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law. 

Prior to joining Kent Law School, Dr Glanert, who is trained in German, French, and US Law, worked as an intern at the Office of the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and as a Teaching Assistant, at junior and senior levels, both at the Sorbonne and at Cornell Law School. She has been a Rudolf B Schlesinger Fellow at Cornell Law School and a Fellow at the German Literature Archive in Marbach (Germany). 

Dr Glanert was the first jurist to secure a Dora Maar Fellowship, an award from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas (USA). She has repeatedly acted as Visiting Professor in Brazil, Canada, China, France, Qatar, Romania, and Switzerland. 

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 a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the American Journal of Comparative Law since 2014.

In addition to her worldwide conferences on comparative law, Dr Glanert has also spoken on hermeneutics before departments of philosophy, notably at the Universität Freiburg in Freiburg im Brisgau (Germany) and at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá (Colombia).

Dr Glanert researches in the fields of comparative law, legal translation and interpretation, and animal law. She has significantly contributed to a better understanding of the key role of language and translation in comparative legal studies and her work features on many reading lists. Further, she has established herself as one of the very few experts on the relevance of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics for comparative legal studies due to her background in philosophy and her expertise in comparative law combined with her German language skills. Moreover, she stands at the forefront of Comparative Animal Law, a unique emerging research field. The main purpose of Comparative Animal Law is to establish a synergy between two fields warranting a close connection: animal law, a rapidly evolving discipline with a strong propensity for transnational correlation, on the one hand, and comparative law, a well-recognized study area promoting interaction with foreign law and dealing with the multiple implications arising from this dynamic, on the other. While Dr Glanert publishes mainly in English, she also regularly writes in French or German.

Dr Glanert produces critical and interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Amongst others, she is the author of De la traductibilité du droit (Dalloz 2011) and the co-author, with Alexandra Mercescu and Geoffrey Samuel, of Rethinking Comparative Law (Elgar 2021). Having edited Comparative Law — Engaging Translation (Routledge 2014) and co-edited, with Fabien Girard, Law’s Hermeneutics: Other Investigations (Routledge 2017), Dr Glanert has also acted as Guest Editor for Special Issues on ‘Law and Translation’ (The Translator 2014), ‘Comparative Legal Reasoning’ (Journal of Comparative Law 2017), and, with Alexandra Mercescu, ‘Comparative Animal Law’ (Global Journal of Animal Law 2024). Dr Glanert is currently working on a co-authored book in Comparative Animal Law to be released with Cambridge University Press in 2029 (with Alexandra Mercescu).     

• LAWS5010 Animal Law
• LAWS5580 Understanding the World’s Codified Legal Systems
• LAWS6700 Comparative Law  

Dr Glanert supervises postgraduate research projects in the fields of Comparative Law, International Law, EU Law, Legal Translation, Legal Interpretation, and Animal Law.     

Member of the Executive Editorial Board, American Journal of Comparative Law

Reviewer for the Luxemburg National Research Fund