What is Robert Badinter?
{{Infobox President | honorific-prefix = | name = Robert Badinter | honorific-suffix = | image = Robert Badinter, 2007 (cropped).jpg | caption = Robert Badinter during a demonstration against the death penalty in Paris, on 3 February 2007 | order = [[French Senate|French Senator]] from [[Hauts-de-Seine]] | office = | term_start = 24 September 1995 | term_end = 25 September 2011 | order2 = President of the [[Constitutional Council of France]] | office2 = | term_start2 = 19 February 1986 | term_end2 = March 1995 | president2 = [[François Mitterrand]] | predecessor2 = [[Daniel Mayer]] | successor2 = [[Roland Dumas]] | order3 = [[Minister of Justice (France)|French Minister of Justice]] | office3 = | term_start3 = 23 June 1981 | term_end3 = 19 February 1986 | president3 = [[François Mitterrand]] | primeminister3 = [[Pierre Mauroy]] | predecessor3 = [[Maurice Faure]] | successor3 = [[Michel Crépeau]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1928|3|30}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = French | spouse = [[Élisabeth Badinter]] | party = [[French Socialist Party]] | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Robert Badinter''' ({{IPA-fr|badɛ̃tɛʁ|lang}}; born 30 March 1928) is a [[French people|French]] [[criminal law]] lawyer, university professor, politician and activist of Jewish descent. He is against the death penalty, the abolition of which he successfully sponsored in Parliament in 1981. A member of the [[French Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] (PS), he served as [[Minister of Justice (France)|Minister of Justice]] and then President of the [[Constitutional Council of France|C