Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty: "Building a durable peace: reducing the tension between law and power"

Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty currently holds the chair of comparative legal studies and internationalisation of law at the Collège de France. She began her career in 1981 at the Commission on Reform of the Penal Code before becoming President of the Criminal Justice and Human Rights Commission (justice pénale et droits de l'homme) in charge of procedural reform. From 1992 to 2002, she was Professor at Université Lille 2, Université Paris-Sud 11 and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She was also a member of the consulting committee for the revision of the Constitution, the committee on the creation of international criminal jurisdiction and the committee of European Union experts in charge of directing a project on European criminal law (Corpus Juris). She has received several doctoral degrees from the universities of Liège, Urbino, Uppsala, Peking, Louvain, Montréal and Ferrare. She is an associate member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (Académie royale de Belgique) and holds the French national order of merit. She has written a number of significant publications, including Models and Movements of Criminal Policies, Major Systems of Criminal Policies, and Comparative Legal Studies and the Internationalisation of Law.