Death of Mireille Delmas-Marty

We learned with great emotion and sadness of the death of Mireille Delmas-Marty, a brilliant academic and honorary professor at the Collège de France.
a brilliant academic and honorary professor at the Collège de France.

From 2002 to 2012, she held the Chair of Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalisation of Law, the matrix of her masterpiece on The Imagining Forces of Law.

A criminal lawyer by training, Mireille Delmas-Marty had become an
internationally known and respected specialist in comparative law and fundamental rights.
She taught in many universities in France – notably from 1990
to 2002 at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne – and abroad, obtained several
prestigious honorary doctorates, and was elected member of the Académie des sciences
morales et politiques.

Her teaching, her publications, her chairmanship of important commissions
(such as the one on “criminal justice and human rights” in 1988) bear witness to
the remarkable qualities of creativity and imagination of this outstanding jurist, who
demonstrated tolerance and humanism and an authority due to her competence.
Mireille Delmas-Marty had agreed to be part of the Honorary Committee of our
Fondation.

Her death is a great loss.