A tireless jurist, humanist, with international influence unlike her frail silhouette, Mireille Delmas-Marty died on February 12, at the age of 80, in Saint-Germain-Laval (Seine-et-Marne). She will not have experienced the peaceful retirement to which her rich academic career entitled her, preferring to tirelessly pursue her research and publications to understand the contemporary world, to decipher it and to shed light on its developments, whether exciting or disturbing, in the light of the law. . A much softer material than it looks.
Among the many fields she has explored, we can cite two of the themes that have been particularly close to her heart in recent years. First the question of borders, legal, political or economic, with the conviction that they are behind 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 column published in The world of March 2, 2021 regarding the fight once morest the coronavirus, Mireille Delmas-Marty denounced “the same obsession with security, the same dream of a world without risk, without crime and without disease. We would be delighted if we did not know how easily the dream of a perfect world can turn into the nightmare of societies of fear. »
Born on May 10, 1941, in Paris, Mireille Delmas-Marty embarked on law studies following hesitating with other courses. She obtained her doctorate in 1969 at the University of Paris-II (Panthéon-Assas), then the aggregation of private law and criminal sciences (1970). Her teaching career began in 1967 as an assistant at the Faculty of Law in Paris, she continued as a university professor, first at Lille-II (1970-1977), then at Paris-XI (1977- 1990) and Paris-I (1990-2002). Member of the Institut universitaire de France (1992-2002), she was elected to the Collège de France as holder of the chair “Comparative legal studies and internationalization of law” (2002-2011).
An incisive gaze
This academic career has been accompanied by numerous participations in reflection committees and commissions requested by the government or international institutions. The studies and reports published under his authority have marked. They remain relevant.
While the Estates General of Justice are being 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 “Criminal Justice and Human Rights” commission. … in June 1990. Appointed by Pierre Arpaillange, then Minister of Justice, this commission chaired by Mireille Delmas-Marty was to reflect on criminal procedure. The terms of the current debate between the investigating judge and the prosecutor were set.
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