The academic and jurist Mireille Delmas-Marty, professor emeritus at the College de France, died Saturday at the age of 80, we learned Sunday from his family.

“His family, his friends, his French and international students, are sad to inform you of the disappearance, on February 12, of Mireille Delmas-Marty, professor emeritus at the Collège de France, member of the Institute (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques), wife of Paul Bouchet”, according to a message from his family.

"His thought in search of a universalisable right offers benchmarks for a peaceful and united global governance", continue his relatives.

Born on May 10, 1941 in Paris, Mireille Delmas-Marty was an eminent jurist and teacher.

Doctor of law and associate professor of private law and criminal sciences, she began her career in universities, in Lille and Paris.

Since 2002, she has been a professor holding the chair “Comparative legal studies and internationalization of law” at the Collège de France and since 2007 a member of the Institute (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences).

“What a great and beautiful conscience that is leaving”

Her rich and varied career has led her to be a member of the advisory committee for the revision of the Constitution (1992-1993), president of the supervisory committee of the European Office for the fight against fraud (1999-2001), member of the high authority in charge of controlling the socialist primary (2011), special adviser to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2011-2015).

Mireille Delmas Marty


What a great and beautiful conscience that is leaving.

— Edgar Morin (@edgarmorinparis) February 12, 2022

“What a great and beautiful conscience that is leaving”, regretted the philosopher Edgar Morin on Twitter.

The Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti said he was "very saddened" by this death.

“It is a great jurist, visionary, fervent defender of individual freedoms, who is leaving.

She was a teacher, she was keen to transmit.

His works will remain.

My thoughts go out to his family and loved ones.

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“Mireille Delmas-Marty has retired.

Gone with her acute, elegant intelligence, her laughter which sometimes remained suspended, ”welcomed the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira.

The Syndicat de la magistrature, one of the two main magistrates' unions, expressed its "great sadness".

"The imagining forces of law are losing a leading intellectual," the SM tweeted.

For the Union of Lawyers of France (SAF), she was “a great woman who remained tirelessly on the alert to protect democracy and freedoms, who tirelessly denounced the endless drift of the rule of law.

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