She earned a doctorate degree in 1993 and was an assistant professor of administrative law and litigation at Liège until 2006.
While at the school, she served as Vice-Dean for Teaching at the Faculty of Law.
She also worked as a lawyer in Namur alongside Claire Doyen-Biver.
[2] On 15 August 2021, Durviaux was found shot dead with her mistress, Nathalie Maillet in Gouvy.
Maillet's husband, Franz Dubois, was the suspected murderer, as he called the police before turning the gun on himself in an apparent suicide.