Mary Ann Glendon, J.D. is the Learned Hand Professor of Law Emerita at Harvard University. A former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, her government service also includes chairing the U.S. State Department Commission on Unalienable Rights and serving on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Her books include A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a history of the framing of the UDHR; Rights Talk, a critique of the impoverishment of political discourse; The Forum and the Tower, a series of biographical essays exploring the relation between political philosophy and politics-in-action; and A Nation Under Lawyers.