Stéphane Cottin

Professional Record
- Jul 2008 - ...: General Secretary of the Government (Prime Minister) – Paris, Special Envoy, Improvement of the Information Systems
- Nov 2000 - Jul 2008: Conseil constitutionnel – Paris, Chief registrar, Head officer of the elections and informatics departments
- Jan 2000 – Nov 2000: Lexbase ed. – Paris, Director of the documentation department
etc…
Key Qualifications
• XML specialist : creation of DTD for legal documents, producer of several national and international legal databases.
• Electoral law, organisation of national elections
• Law research, especially in comparative law
• Professional training and teaching
Others (Membership of professional bodies, publications, etc.)
Former "liaison officer" for France (from 1993 to 2000), of the Commission for Democracy through Law (Council of Europe, Venice Commission)
Creator of the institutional website of the Conseil constitutionnel (www.Conseil-constitutionnel.fr). Web designer of several websites.
Publications (selection, in English)
- Status and best practices for digital preservation of official data in Europe (Conference Presentation at the Pioneering Change, 99th AALL Annual meeting, July 2006)
- The Public Service of Dissemination of the French Law on the Internet (Journal Article in Acta Universitatis Sibiu, 2005(1-2 supp.)
- Judicial Policy (Book Chapter in Handbook of Public Policy in Europe (Britain, France and Germany), Hugh Compston, ed., Palgrave 2004
- Researching French Law on Internet, LLRX.com (Legal Librarian Research Exchange, New-York University); 2001 - updated 2007 in Globalex
Others articles and books (in French) : http://www.getcited.org/mbrx/PT/99/MBR/11103426

Specialties
Electoral law, electoral litigation, voting systems, organization of elections.
Law librarianship, computer-assisted legal researches, bibliography, scientometrics.