Bruno Cotte

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Bruno Cotte (born June 10, 1945 in Lyon ) is a French lawyer . He was President of the Criminal Chamber of the French Supreme Court of Appeal from 2000 to 2007 and was a judge at the International Criminal Court from 2007 to 2014 .

Life

Bruno Cotte was born in Lyon in 1945 and studied law at the university in his hometown from 1962 , where he graduated in 1966 in public law and two years later in private law . From September 1967 to December 1969 he also studied at the École nationale de la magistrature (ENM), the French college for the training of judges . He then worked from 1970 to 1973 in the French Ministry of Justice and then until 1975 as a public prosecutor at the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Lyon . From 1975 he worked again in the Ministry of Justice, in which he headed the prosecution office in the department for criminal cases and pardons. In 1980 he moved to the Supreme Court of Appeals as assistant to the first president and a year later as assistant to the attorney general at the Paris Court of Appeals, where he worked until 1983.

From there he returned to the Ministry of Justice, where he initially worked as deputy director and from 1984 to 1990 as director of the Department for Criminal Matters and Pardons. In 1990 he initially served as attorney general at the Court of Appeal in Versailles for a few months before moving to the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris as a prosecutor . where he worked until 1995. He then worked until 2000 as an advisor to the prosecution at the Supreme Court of Appeal, where he became president of its criminal division in September 2000, taking on the highest judicial office in France in the field of criminal law . During his judging career, Bruno Cotte was also a lecturer at the University of Paris II and at the ENM.

In December 2007 he was elected Judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague by the Assembly of the Contracting Parties to the Rome Statute . In accordance with the requirements of the Rome Statute for the qualification of candidates in the field of criminal and criminal procedural law (list of candidates A) and international law (list of candidates B), he ran for list A based on his professional experience. He became a candidate together with Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko from Uganda and Fumiko Saiga from Japan elected in a by-election made necessary by the withdrawal of Claude Jorda , Karl Hudson-Phillips and Maureen Harding Clark . Since the term of office of Jorda would have ended in 2009 and that of Hudson-Phillips and Clark in 2012, the allocation of the three newly elected judges to the positions to be filled was determined by lottery. According to this decision, Bruno Cotte's term of office ran until March 2012, according to the provisions of the Rome Statute, he could not be re-elected. However, he remained in court until 2014 to bring the proceedings in which he was involved to a conclusion.

Bruno Cotte is married and has three children.

Awards

Bruno Cotte was appointed Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite in 2001 and, four years later, Commander of the French Legion of Honor .

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SURNAME Cotte, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer and judge at the International Criminal Court (since 2007)
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon