Mireille Delmas-Marty (10 May 1941 – 12 February 2022) was a French jurist, honorary professor at the

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, and a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. She was a member of numerous legislative and constitutional commissions, such as the member of the Criminal Code Reform Commission, president of the commission "Criminal Justice and Human Rights", coordinator of the Committee of Experts of the European Union on the project "Corpus Juris", and chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the European Anti-Fraud Office. She was also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by

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. In 2021 she was elected to the

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. She died in Saint-Germain-Laval, Loire on 12 February 2022, at the age of 80.Mireille Delmas-Marty, éminente universitaire et juriste, est morte

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