Nationality: France (Western European and other States)
Term: 17 January 2008 - 31 May 2014
Elected from: List A on 30 November 2007
Biography
Judge as of 17 January 2008, for a term of four years and two months (to fill a judicial vacancy). Elected from the Western European and Others Group of States (WEOG), list A.
Judge Cotte (1945) served as a senior judge in France, and from 2000 was the President of the Criminal Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (Supreme Court of Appeal) where he dealt with international criminal law cases. From 1984 to 1990, he was Director for Criminal Affairs and Pardons in the Ministry of Justice, dealing with international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, issues related to the definition of crimes against humanity and associated litigation. Judge Cotte also served as Attorney General of the Versailles Court of Appeal from May to September 1990; Public Prosecutor of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris (Paris District Court) from 1990 to 1995; and Counsel for the Prosecution of the Cour de Cassation from 1995 to 2000.
On 6 December 2010, in the first round of voting, Judge Bruno Cotte was elected member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques [Academy of Moral and Political Sciences], one of the five academies of the Institut de France.
