University Professor, Member of the College de France, she devoted her life to reflection on the right place against the transformations of the contemporary world, wearing an incisive and deeply humanistic look. Doctor Honoris causa of eight universities in the world, she died on February 12, at the age of 80.
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Infatigable lawyer, humanist, in international influence in the opposite of his frail Silhouette, Mireille Delmas-Marty died on February 12, at the age of 80, in Saint-Germain-Laval (Seine-et-Marne ) It will not have known the peaceful retirement to which its rich career of academics gave him right, preferring to pursue his research and publications tirelessly to understand the contemporary world, decipher and inform his evolutions, exciting or disturbing, in the light of law. . A material much more flexible than it looks.
Among the many lands that she has explored, we can mention two of the themes that particularly held at heart in recent years. First the question of borders, legal, political or economic, with the belief that they are late on our evolution towards a globalized world. Then, the security frenzy of our societies and the regressions it imposes on the rule of law. In a tribune published in Le Monde of March 2, 2021 About the fight against coronavirus, Mireille Delmas-Marty denounced “the same security obsession, the same dream of a world without risk, without crime and without illness. We s ‘would glance, if we did not know how easy the dream of a perfect world can turn to the nightmare of the companies of fear. ”
Born on May 10, 1941, in Paris, Mireille Delmas-Marty embarks on law studies after hesitating with other courses. She obtained her doctorate in 1969 at Paris-II University (Panthéon-Assas), then the aggregation of private law and criminal science (1970). His teaching career had started in 1967 as an assistant at the Faculty of Law of Paris, it continues as a professor of the universities, first in Lille-II (1970-1977) and then in Paris-Xi (1977- 1990) and Paris-I (1990-2002). Member of the University Institute of France (1992-2002), it was elected at the College of France as the holder of the Chair “Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law” (2002-2011).
A Incisive look
This academic course has been accompanied by many participations in reflection committees and commissions requested by the government or international institutions. Studies and reports published under his authority scored. They remain relevant.
As the general states of justice are held during the winter of 2021-2022, one of the reference documents mobilized to feed this work will have been the report published by the Commission “Criminal Justice and Rights of the Rights. Man “in June 1990. Appointed by Pierre Arpaillage, then Minister of Justice, this commission chaired by Mireille Delmas-Marty had to think about criminal proceedings. The terms of the current debate between the investigating judge and the prosecutor were posed.
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