Prof. Mary Ann Glendon

Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, emerita, at Harvard University, and a Distinguished Research Affiliate of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame.  A former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Glendon’s government service includes chairing the U.S. State Department Commission on Unalienable Rights and membership on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and the U.S. President's Council on Bioethics.  She received the National Humanities Medal in 2006.  Her books include The Forum and the Tower, Traditions in Turmoil, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, A Nation Under Lawyers, and Rights Talk.