Jean Paul Costa

JeanPaul Costa is a French jurist and was the President of the European Court of Human Rights sinceJanuary 2007. He was first appointed a judge of the Court onNovember 1998, and in 2009 was elected to serve an additional three years as President. His term at the Court ended onNovember 2011.

Costa was born in Tunis, capital of Tunisia, and educated at the Lyce Carnot in the city, but his family left when the country declared independence in 1957. He was then educated at the prestigious Lyce HenriIV in Paris, before studying at the Institut dtudes Politiques de Paris, better known as Sciences Po, graduating with an undergraduate diploma in 1961, Master of Laws in 1962 and Diploma of Superior Studies in Public Law in 1964. He then studied from 1964 to 1966 at the cole nationale dadministration .

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