The French academic and jurist Mireille Delmas-Marty, professor emeritus at the Collège de France and former special adviser to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from 2011 to 2015, died on Saturday at the age of 80, we learned on Sunday from from his family.
Born on May 10, 1941 in Paris, Mireille Delmas-Marty was an eminent jurist and teacher. Doctor honoris causa of eight universities in the world, she also chaired the supervisory committee of the European Anti-Fraud Office (1999-2001) and was a member of the board of directors of the French Commission for UNESCO.
Her rich and varied career has also led her to chair reflection missions with various French ministries and the Presidency of the Republic, on the revision of the Constitution (1992-1993) or the future of Europe (2001 ).
Since 2002, she has held the chair of “Comparative legal studies and internationalization of law” at the Collège de France.
“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 and policies), 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.
“What a great and beautiful conscience that is leaving”, regretted the French philosopher Edgar Morin on Twitter. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office “exists only thanks to the visionary work of the [projet Corpus Juris]of which she was the coordinator”, reacted this independent body of the European Union.
The high French magistrate François Molins, public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, hailed “a great lady, a very great jurist, who marked her time by her attachment to the great principles of law, to fundamental freedoms, to the separation of powers and the independence of justice”.
“She was very visionary, and her very humanistic vision of law never ceased to find legal tools to better respond to the effects of globalization,” he added to Agence France-Presse.
She is “a great woman who remained tirelessly on alert to protect democracy and freedoms, and who tirelessly denounced the endless drift of the rule of law”, estimated the Syndicate of Lawyers of France.
Mireille Delmas-Marty was a visiting professor at the University of Montreal (1983) and at the University of Quebec in Montreal (2006). She was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Montreal in 2003.
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