Mary Ann Glendon
Mary Ann Glendon ( born October 7, 1938 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts ) is an American lawyer. From February 2008 to January 2009 she was the Ambassador of the United States to the Holy See.
Life
Glendon studied law at the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA) in 1959, Juris Doctor ( JD) in 1961 and Master of Comparative Law ( M.Comp.L. ) 1963. This was followed by a two-year postgraduate studies of the European right along the Belgian Université Libre de Bruxelles and work as a legal adviser in the EEC. Between 1963 and 1968 she worked in the Chicago law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt, as well as a volunteer attorney for the American civil rights movement. During this time she married an African-American, left him but later and then married Edward R. Lev, a Jewish lawyer, with whom she lives in Chestnut Hill today. She has three children, one of the first of her husband.
From 1968 to 1986 she taught at the private Boston College Law School. 1974, she was first a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 1986 then a full professorship. At the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, she has held twice a visiting professor. She was appointed to the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School in 1993. She teaches and publishes there, especially on issues of bioethics, of Comparative Constitutional Law ( U.S. and European ), property and human rights in international law. In 1991 she was elected president of the UNESCO - affiliated International Association of Legal Science ( IALS ).
On 19 January 1994 that Pope John Paul II Glendon as a founding member in the newly formed Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. In 1995 she took part in the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing as Head of the Delegation of the Holy See. There, she was criticized for strictly negative attitude of the Vatican towards the use of condoms and other means of contraception, even as a precaution against AIDS.
As so-called " pro-life feminist " Glendon justified their rejection of abortion feminist argument.
The U.S. magazine The National Law Journal called Glendon in 1998 as one of the fifty most influential lawyers in America.
2004, Pope John Paul II Glendon president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. It was so successor by Edmond Malinvaud and first woman in this position ( and second woman to head a pontifical academy, after the appointment of Letizia Pani Ermini Pontificia Accademia Romana as President of the di Archeological Museum in 2003).
On 5 November 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush announced their call to the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See as the successor of Francis Rooney. The appointment was confirmed on 19 December 2007 by the U.S. Senate on 29 February 2008 was followed by a reception by Pope Benedict XVI. with an official handover of the accreditation letter.
Glendon is a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and the Pontifical Council for the Family in Rome. It is referred to in its position as the " highest-ranking woman in the Catholic hierarchy ." From 2002 to 2005 she was a member of the bioethics of the U.S. president and was temporarily touted as a possible candidate of President George W. Bush for the Supreme Court of the United States. In the pre-election campaign for U.S. presidential election 2008, she was up to her appointment as ambassador member of the advisory committee of Mitt Romney. She was previously represented in the advisory boards of the conservative lobbying organizations Institute of Religion & Democracy and Catholic League.
As Glendon had their ambassadors activity restricted a priori to the term of President Bush, which ended in January 2009, she joined the farewell visit to Pope Benedict XVI on 10 January 2009. of. After clarifying its successor they want to return to Harvard University again.
Quote
"What is CLEARLY ' old- fashioned ' today is the old feminism of the 1970s -. Negative attitudes toward men with its, marriage and motherhood, and its rigid party line on abortion and gay rights"
Awards
In 1988, she won the Scribes Book Award of the American Society of Writers ( for Abortion and Divorce in Western Law ), 1993 Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award of the Legal Academy ( for The Transformation of Family Law ).
You already received several honorary doctorates, for example, from the universities of Chicago, Louvain- la -Neuve (Belgium) and Navarra (Spain). 2005 awarded her the stately National Endowment for the Humanities in the presence of U.S. President George W. Bush, the National Humanities Medal.
Publications (selection)
- The New Family and the New Property (1981 )
- Abortion and Divorce in Western Law (1987 )
- The Transformation of Family Law (1989 )
- Rights Talks ( 1991)
- A Nation Under Lawyers ( 1996)
- A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2001)