Full then honorary professor (UNIGE), Michel Porret chairs the Geneva International Meetings and runs the blog: https://blogs.letemps.ch/michel-porret/. After working as a bookseller, he obtained his federal baccalaureate at the Collège du soir and then defended his doctorate in history with Bronislaw Baczko, whose assistant he was. Director of Beccaria. Revue d’histoire du droit de punir and the collections L’Équinoxe and Aché d’imprimer (GEORG), he works on justice, the Enlightenment, utopia, and comics.