After studying law in Paris, Mireille Delmas-Marty earned her Ph.D. (1969) and then her agrégation in private law and criminal sciences (1970).
Her teaching career, following three years as an assistant at the Paris Law School (1967–1970), led her to teach at the universities of Lille-II (1970–1977), Paris-XI (1977–1990), and Paris-I (1990–2002). A member of the Institut universitaire de France (1992–2002), she was elected to the Collège de France as holder of the chair in Comparative Legal Studies and the Internationalization of Law (2002–2011). Mireille Delmas-Marty has served as a visiting professor at most major European universities, as well as, notably, in the United States, Latin America, China, Japan, and Canada.
She holds honorary doctorates from eight universities and is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (1990), the Universal Academy of Cultures (1999), and the American Law Institute (2012). She served as president of the Pharos Observatory on Cultural and Religious Pluralism and the Association Philotechnique (2011–2017) and was a member of the Board of Directors of the French National Commission for UNESCO (2014–2017). She is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (2003) and of the Order of the Legion of Honor (2016).
In addition to her teaching, Mireille Delmas-Marty has devoted herself to research at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the European Criminal Law Research Association, which she founded, and later at the Joint Research Unit (UMR) for Comparative Law (University of Paris 1/CNRS), which she founded and directed from 1997 to 2002. Since 1984, she has served as editor-in-chief of the *Revue de science criminelle et de droit pénal comparé* and has been a member of the editorial boards of various legal journals, both national (such as the *Archives de Politique criminelle* and the *Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme* ) and international (such as the *European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice* and the *Journal of International Criminal Justice* ).
Finally, Mireille Delmas-Marty has served in expert capacities, notably: for the President of the Republic, on the 1992 constitutional revision; for the Minister of Justice, on the 1981 reform of the Penal Code and the 1998 reform of criminal procedure; for the European Union, as part of the Corpus Juris criminal law project (1996–1999) and the Supervisory Committee of the European Anti-Fraud Office (1999–2005); and for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court as a special advisor (2011–2015).
Mireille Delmas-Marty passed away on February 12, 2022.