current member of the constitutional court

Marcel SZABÓ

Born year: 1970

Member of the Constitutional Court since 1 December 2016.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in 1994. From 1993 to 1994, he was a member of the staff of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, later legal adviser and subsequently Head of Department. Between February 2011 and October 2012, he represented the Hungarian government before the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague. From 2012 to 2016, he was Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Ombudsman for Future Generations.

Since 1997, he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, and since 2004 he has been Head of Department. In 2000 he passed the bar exams, in 2003 he obtained his PhD and in 2012 he habilitated.