Biography
Glenn was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1940. He studied law at Queen's University and Harvard Law School and earned his doctorate in law at Strasbourg.
He started his career[1] at McGill University in 1971, recruited by the Faculty of Law to help support the National Program. He became known as a respected scholar in the field of comparative law, specifically comparative civil procedure and private international law. He began publishing in the 1980s and continued for the majority of his career. He is the author of the five editions of Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law,[2] published by the Oxford University Press.
Glenn started as an assistant professor in 1971, rising to the rank of associate professor in 1973 and then to Full Professor in 1978, a rank that he held until his passing in 2014.[3]
While he remained at McGill for his entire career, he also had the honor of serving as a visiting professor at a number of illustrious universities throughout the world, including the Université de Montréal (1973), the Université de Fribourg (1985), and the Université française du Pacifique (1992). He was also the Director of Studies at the Hague starting in 1977. In 2012, he was elected president of the American Society of Comparative Law.[4]
In 2006, The Government of Quebec recognized H. Patrick Glenn with the Prix Léon-Gérin in the science category.[5]
