Jean-Pierre Cot (born 23 October 1937 in

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) is a French

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who has served as a judge at the

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Biography

He is the son of

Pierre Cot Pierre Jules Cot (20 November 1895, in Grenoble – 21 August 1977, Paris), was a French politician and leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s. Born in Grenoble into a conservative Catholic family, he entered politics as a ...

, also a politician and minister. After studying law at

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from 1955 to 1965, he earned a Ph.D. in 1966. He then was professor of public law and international law at the University of Amiens, then the

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, before being elected as a deputy for

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in 1973. He was later re-elected, before joining the Socialist government of

Pierre Mauroy Pierre Mauroy (; 5 July 1928 – 7 June 2013) was a French Socialist politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001. At the time of his de ...

in 1981 as deputy minister in charge of Co-operation and Development. He was a

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(MEP) in 1978–1979 and 1984–1999, and chaired the socialist group of the European Parliament between 1989 and 1994, before becoming its vice-president in 1997. Since 2002, he has been a member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In 2017, he was made an officer of the legion of honour.

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ITLOS - Judge Jean-Pierre Cot
Biography at the website of the ITLOS 1937 births Living people French judges of United Nations courts and tribunals International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea judges MEPs for France 1958–1979 MEPs for France 1984–1989 MEPs for France 1989–1994 MEPs for France 1994–1999 Academic staff of Pantheon-Sorbonne University Lawyers from Geneva Socialist Party (France) MEPs University of Paris alumni {{France-politician-Socialist-stub