It was with great emotion and sadness that we learned of the death of Mireille Delmas-Marty, a brilliant academic and honorary professor at the Collège de France. For ten years, from 2002 to 2012, she held the Chair of Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law, the matrix of her masterwork on Les forces imaginantes du droit. Trained as a criminal lawyer, Mireille Delmas-Marty became a world-renowned and respected specialist in comparative law and fundamental rights. She taught at numerous universities in France – notably from 1990 to 2002 at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne – and abroad, was awarded several prestigious honorary doctorates, and was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Her teaching, publications and chairmanship of major commissions (such as the one on “Criminal Justice and Human Rights” in 1988) bear witness to the remarkable creativity and imagination of this outstanding jurist, who demonstrated tolerance and humanism, as well as the authority born of her competence. Mireille Delmas-Marty had agreed to join the Honorary Committee of our Foundation. Her death is a great loss.