Jean-Pierre Cot

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Jean-Pierre Cot (born October 23, 1937 in Geneva ) is a French professor of international law and current judge at the International Tribunal for the Sea .

Life

After studying and obtaining a doctorate in law at the law faculty of the Sorbonne , Cot was a lecturer at the law and economics faculties from 1966 . In the same year he became a professor at the Université de Picardie in Amiens , where he taught until 1969. In 1969 he returned to the Sorbonne as a professor of public law and international law, where he taught until 1998. In numerous cases, Cot acted as advisor to various governments before the International Court of Justice . Most of these cases concerned border disputes and questions of territorial delimitation.

Cot was also active as a politician. From 1981 to 1982 he was French Development Aid Minister and from 1983 to 1984 a member of the UNESCO Board of Directors . He was then a member of the European Parliament , where he headed the social democratic group from 1989 to 1994 . From 1997 to 1999 he was Vice President of Parliament .

In addition, he has acted as ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in six cases so far . He was nominated twice by Colombia and once each by Romania , Burkina Faso , Thailand and East Timor .

Since October 1, 2002, Cot has been a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg , where he will serve until 2020 after his re-election in June 2011. He had previously been selected by France as an ad hoc judge.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Ex-Yougoslavie: une paix bâclée . In: Défense nationale: grades politiques, économiques, scientifiques, militaires . Volume 7/1997 ISSN  0035-1075 , p. 71
  • Les fonctions du raisonnable dans la jurisprudence du Tribunal international du droit de la mer . In: Droit du pouvoir, pouvoir du droit: mélanges offerts à Jean Salmon . Bruylant, Brussels 2007 ISBN 978-2-8027-2330-1
  • La Charte des Nations Unies: commentaire article par article . Economica, Paris ISBN 2-7178-5057-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Cot, Jean-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cot, Jean Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, MEP, professor of international law, judge at the International Tribunal for the Sea
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva