To mark International Women's Rights Day 2025, the Collège de France has decided to nameone of its main lecture hallsafter Prof. MireilleDelmas-Marty, who held the Chair in Comparative Legal Studies and the Internationalization of Law from 2002 to 2011.
Room 5will henceforth be known as the Mireille Delmas-Marty Room, in tribute to an exceptional researcher and teacher whose lectures revived international law at the Collège de France, and who marked generations of researchers with her rigorous analysis of fundamental human rights.
You are invited to rediscover the recording and text of her opening lecture, delivered on March20 2003, accessible below.
The Collège de France has also chosen to highlight the profiles of four women working in various departments of the establishment to fulfill its essential missions in favor of fundamental research and the dissemination of knowledge :
- Françoise Crépin, Manager, Human Resources Department
- Edith Heard, Professor, Chair of Genetics and Cell Memory
- Sophie Wierniezky, Bookbinder, Department of Libraries, Archives and Collections
- Aurore-Alice Young, PhD student, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
