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1Name:  Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty
 Institution:  French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences; Collège de France
 Year Elected:  2021
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1941
 Death Date:  February 12, 2022
   
 
Mireille Delmas-Marty is a French jurist, honorary professor at the Collège de France and a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the French Institute. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Paris II in 1969. She has been a leader in European law reform projects, including the Criminal Code Reform Commission. She presided over the commission on “Criminal Justice and Human Rights” and coordinated the Committee of Experts of the European Union on the project “Corpus Juris.” She developed new standards that found a place in the work of the Supervisory Committee of the European Anti-Fraud Office. She has participated in the landmark effort for the President of the French Republic to revise the Constitution in 1992, the reform of the Penal Code in 1981 and the reform of criminal procedure in 1988. She is one of the international leaders in the comparative study of criminal law. Mireille Delmas-Marty's publications include: Les grands systèmes de politique criminelle, 1992; Le flou du droit, 1986; Pour un droit commun, 1994; Trois défis pour un droit mondial, 1998; Libertés et sureté dans un monde dangereux, 2010; Les forces imaginantes du droit, série en 4 volumes: Le relatif et l’universel, (2004), Le Pluralisme ordonné, (2006), La refondation des pouvoirs, (2007), Vers une communauté de valeurs?, (2011); Résister, responsabiliser, anticiper, 2013; Le travail à l’heure de la mondialisation, 2013; Aux quatre vents du monde, petit guide de navigation sur l’océan de la mondialisation, 2016. Her honors include: National Order of Merit (France), 2003; Beccaria Prize, International Society of Social Defense, 2007; Jeschek Prize, International Association of Penal Law, 2008; Prominent Woman in International Law Award, American Society of International Law, 2012; Grand Officer, Franch Order of the Legion of Honour, 2016. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2021.
 
2Name:  Dr. Sheila Sen Jasanoff
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  2021
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1944
   
 
SHEILA JASANOFF is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, she was founding chair of Cornell University’s Department of Science and Technology Studies. At Harvard, she founded and directs the Program on Science, Technology and Society; she also founded and coordinates the Science and Democracy Network. Jasanoff’s research centers on the interactions of law, science, and politics in democratic societies. She has written more than 130 articles and book chapters and authored or edited more than 15 books, including The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, and Designs on Nature. An edited volume, Dreamscapes of Modernity, was published in 2015. Her most recent books, The Ethics of Invention and Can Science Make Sense of Life?, appeared in 2016 and 2019, respectively. Her work has been translated into multiple languages. Jasanoff has held distinguished professorships in the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan. She was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Karl W. Deutsch Guest Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Her awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, the 2018 A. O. Hirschman prize of the Social Science Research Council, the Reimar-Lüst Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, the Austrian Government’s Ehrenkreuz, and the Bernal award of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a foreign member of the British Academy and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. She holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard College, a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, as well as honorary doctorates from the Universities of Twente and Liège.
 
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