Mireille Delmas-Marty, eminent university and lawyer, is dead

Professor at the College of France and a member of the Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics, Docture Honor Causa of eight universities in the world, she died Saturday at the age of 80.

Le Monde with AFP

The university and lawyer Mireille Delmas-Marty, Professor Emeritus at the College of France, died on Saturday, February 13 to 80, we learned Sunday from his family. A disappearance that sparked a wave of tributes.

“His family, his friends, his French and international students, have the sadness to inform you of the disappearance, this February 12, of Mireille Delmas-Marty, professor emeritus at the College of France, a member of the Institute ( Academy of Moral and Political Sciences), wife of Paul Bouchet “, according to a message from his family. “His thought in search of a universalizable right proposes benchmarks for the soothing and solidarity global governance,” continue his loved ones.

Born May 10, 1941 in Paris, Mireille Delmas-Marty was a prominent lawyer and teacher. Doctor in law and aggregate of private law and criminal science, she started her career in universities, Lille and Paris.

It was since 2002 professor of the Chair “Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of the Law” of the College de France and since 2007 member of the Institute (Academy of Moral and Policy Sciences).

His rich and varied course led him to be a member of the Constitutional Review Advisory Committee (1992-1993), Chair of the Supervisory Committee of the European Fight Against Fraud Office (1999-2001 ), Member of the High Authority responsible for monitoring Socialist Primary (2011), Special Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2011-2015).

“Part with his acute intelligence”

“What great and beautiful consciousness that goes”, regretted on Twitter the philosopher Edgar Morin. The custody of Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti said he was “very saddened” by this death. “It is a great lawyer, visionary, fervent defender of individual freedoms, who goes away. He was a teacher, she had at heart to transmit. His work will remain. My thoughts go to his family and loved ones.” “Mireille Delmas-Marty has withdrawn. Part with his acute intelligence, elegant, his laugh that sometimes remained suspended”, praised the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira

/Media reports.