A Compass of Possibilities

"After publishing Aux quatre vents du monde (Seuil 2015), I felt the limits of the discursive form and it seemed necessary, in order to make "manifest" the choice of possible worlds, to use the analogy between the winds of the physical world and those of the mind. From the unlikely meeting of a lawyer and a plastic builder was born the idea of inscribing thought in matter by making a "manifest object" imagined by the artist, by combining the four elements of matter."

- Mireille Delmas-Marty & Antonio Benincà

The Wind Rose of globalization.

Schematic representation of the “rose des vents” at the base of the “Boussole des possibles” (‘Compass of Possibilities’), an object-manifesto materalialized by Antonio Benincà. It illustrates the “winds of globalization” composed by the main winds: security, competition, freedom and cooperation; and the “winds between the winds” (vents d’entre les vents) resulting from the intersection between the main winds, such as: exclusion, innovation, integration and conservation.

Mireille Delmas-Marty, au pays des nuages ordonnés (Mireille Delmas-Marty, in the land of ordered clouds)

Documentary directed by François Stuck based on a filmed interview with Professor Delmas-Marty shot on April 21, 2021 as part of the film "Êtres en transition, le vivant nous questionne".

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Mireille Delmas-Marty's latest book was published in 2020 by Éditions du Collège de France and is entitled Une boussole des possibles: gouvernance mondiale et humanismes juridiques. It is the closing lecture that the Professor gave at the Collège de France, updated with unpublished texts. This text is available in French for free online through this link.
This book has been translated into Italian and it is available for free through this link.

The English version is currently being published, will be available soon and will be presented for the first time on May 8 in Bologna during this first edition of Les printemps du droit.