H Patrick Glenn

Faculty of Law

Biography

Professor Patrick Glenn teaches and has research interests in the areas of comparative law, private international law, civil procedure and the legal professions. His book Legal Traditions of the World (Oxford University Press, 2000) received the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law. A fourth edition appeared in 2010.

He is a former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law and in that capacity worked on projects on the reform of the Russian Civil Code and judicial education in China. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Academy of Comparative Law and has been a Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Law, a Killam Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

In 2006, H. Patrick Glenn received the Prix Léon-Gérin, a prestigious award attributed by the Government of Québec, in recognition of his contribution in comparative law over his career. In 2010-2011 he will hold the Henry G. Schermers Fellowship of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law.

Education

LL.D., honoris causa (Fribourg, 2002)

Docteur en droit (Strasbourg) 1972

D.E.S. (Strasbourg) 1968

LL.M. (Harvard) 1966

LL.B. (Queen's) 1965

B.A. (U.B.C.) 1962

Employment

Professor, McGill University, since 1978

Associate professor, McGill University, 1973-78

Assistant professor, McGill University, 1971-73

Visiting professor, Université de Sherbrooke, 1972, 1975, 1985, 1987; Université de Montréal, 1973, 1974, 1990, 1991; Université de Fribourg (Switzerland) 1985; Université d'Aix (France) 1988; University of Silesia (Poland) 1989; Université française du Pacifique, 1992

Director of Studies, Hague Academy of International Law, 1977

Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights, 1988-89

British Columbia Bar, 1967

Quebec Bar, 1979

Areas of Interest

Comparative law, private international law, civil procedure, privacy, immigration.