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The Quiet Persuader Between the Forum and the Tower

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It is great honor and joy to celebrate Mary Ann Glendon’s outstanding contribution to comparative legal studies. Indeed, she is one of the most prominent comparative legal scholars. It suffices here to recall Comparative legal traditions, a successful textbook, written with Paolo Carozza and Colin Pickel, published in four editions, an evergreen in its approach to comparative law. However, to me, Mary Ann Glendon is even much more than that. She is not only a distinguished comparatist, and even a pioneer of this branch of academic study. She is a public intellectual. And—even more relevantly—she is an inspiring woman.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Glendon et al. (2014).

  2. 2.

    Yearbook 2010, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City 2010, 31.

  3. 3.

    Sacco (1991).

  4. 4.

    MacIntyre (1981), p. 207.

  5. 5.

    Glendon (2006), p. 4.

  6. 6.

    Merryman and Pérez-Perdomo (2007), p. 2.

  7. 7.

    Häberle (1998).

  8. 8.

    Romano (1946).

  9. 9.

    Glendon et al. (2014), p. 34.

  10. 10.

    Cardozo (1921), p. 179.

  11. 11.

    Glendon (1977, 1989a).

  12. 12.

    Glendon (1996).

  13. 13.

    Glendon (1989b).

  14. 14.

    Glendon (1991).

  15. 15.

    Kommers (1998), p. 1334.

  16. 16.

    See Glendon (1991), pp. 47–144.

  17. 17.

    Glendon (1991), pp. 45–46.

  18. 18.

    Just in Italy, only as examples, see at least: Violante (2017) and Zagrebelsky (2017).

  19. 19.

    Kommers (1998), p. 1352.

  20. 20.

    This concept was expressed in a very personal speech that Mary Ann Glendon gave in a workshop for the celebration of her 75th anniversary in Florence, that I had the pleasure to convene at together with my friends and colleagues Paolo Carozza and Andrea Simoncini, with whom I share the privilege of a special friendship with Professor Glendon.

  21. 21.

    Glendon (2011).

  22. 22.

    Glendon (2011), p. 2.

  23. 23.

    Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard.

  24. 24.

    D. Blankenhorn, founder and president of the Institute for American Values.

  25. 25.

    Butterfield (1995), in the occasion of her nomination as the head of the Vatican delegation in Beijing.

  26. 26.

    Glendon (2002).

  27. 27.

    Butterfield (1995).

  28. 28.

    Maritain (1949), pp. 9, 16 quoted in Glendon (2006), p. 347. The Italian translation, Tradizioni in subbuglio, is edited by Carozza and Cartabia (2007), p. 73.

  29. 29.

    Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue.

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Cartabia, M. (2018). The Quiet Persuader Between the Forum and the Tower. In: Boele-Woelki, K., Fernàndez Arroyo, D. (eds) The Past, Present and Future of Comparative Law - Le passé, le présent et le futur du droit comparé. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93770-0_2

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