Dr Simone Glanert

Qualifications: PhD (Sorbonne), LLM (Cornell), DEA (Sorbonne)

Dr Simone Glanert joined Kent Law School as a Lecturer in French and European Comparative Law in 2007. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012 and to Reader in 2017. 

After two years of studies in German law and French law at Universität Potsdam, Dr Glanert moved to France where she earned an advanced general studies degree in “French Law” (Licence) as well as a Master's degree in “International and European Law” (Maîtrise) from Université de Nanterre. She then obtained a postgraduate degree (DEA) in “Comparative Legal Studies” and a PhD from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. Dr Glanert also earned an LLM from Cornell Law School where she studied as a Rudolf B. Schlesinger Fellow. 

On the professional front, Dr Glanert secured an internship at the Office of the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and worked as a Teaching Assistant, at junior and senior levels, at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne and Cornell Law School. Her various teaching responsibilities included introductory seminars on French law and US law and advanced seminars on French contract law and family law. 

At Kent Law School, Dr Glanert has been teaching in the fields of French law, comparative law and legal interpretation. She has repeatedly acted as visiting professor in Canada, France, Qatar, Romania and Switzerland. Dr Glanert was a Fellow at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France in April 2016 and a Fellow at the German Literature Archive in Marbach, Germany in July 2017.

Dr Glanert’s research focuses on theoretical issues arising from the practice of comparison in the context of the globalization and Europeanization of laws. In this regard, Dr Glanert’s monograph De la traductibilité du droit (Dalloz, 2011) critically assesses the possibilities and limits of legal translation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Having edited Comparative Law – Engaging Translation (Routledge, 2014) and Law’s Hermeneutics: Other Investigations, (Routledge, 2017; with Fabien Girard), Dr Glanert has also acted as guest editor for a special issue on law and translation released by a leading translation-studies journal published by Routledge (The Translator, 2014). She is the co-author of a book entitled Rethinking Comparative Law (Elgar, 2021; with Alexandra Mercescu and Geoffrey Samuel). Dr Glanert is currently working on a research project in Comparative Animal Law (with Alexandra Mercescu). 

Dr Glanert's undergraduate teaching responsibilities span across Comparative Law, Droit français and Skills in Legal Interpretation.

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