current member of the constitutional court

András György KOVÁCS
Born year: 1973
Member of the Constitutional Court since 16 September 2026.
He obtained his law degree from Eötvös Loránd University in 1998, a degree in law and economics from Corvinus University in 2008, and a PhD in Law from Eötvös Loránd University in 2009. In 2015, he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University.
Between 1998 and 2001, he served as a judicial trainee at the Pest Central District Court, working in both the criminal and civil divisions. From 2002 until 2003, he served as a court secretary in the Administrative Division of the Budapest-Capital Court and, between 2003 and 2009, as a judge of that Court, adjudicating primarily cases concerning competition law, regulated markets, tax law, public procurement and numerous matters involving fundamental rights. Between 2006 and 2007, he served as a judge attached to the President of the Court. From 2008 until 2009, he was Deputy Head of the Administrative Division of the Budapest-Capital Court and was also a member of that Court’s Judicial Council.
Since September 2009, he has served as a Supreme Court judge adjudicating administrative-law cases. He was a member of the Administrative Panel for the Publication of Decisions of Principle from 2012 until 2020 and, between 2012 and 2018, served as a member of the appellate service tribunal. From 2012 until 2026, he served as a presiding judge of a panel of the Curia. Between 2013 and 2019, he headed the administrative-law branch of the Network of European Law Adviser Judges (EJSZH), which was responsible for promoting the uniform application of European Union law. He is the recipient of certificates awarded by the National Judicial Council in recognition of ten and fifteen years, respectively, of outstanding judicial service.
Alongside his judicial career, he served between 1998 and 2009 as an external lecturer and, subsequently, from 2016 until 2023, as a habilitated Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative Law of Eötvös Loránd University. Between 2010 and 2015, he taught on the International Studies programme at Kodolányi János College, initially as an Associate Professor and, from 2011, as a Professor, teaching public law, comparative constitutional law, European Union law and international law. He has also taught at several other universities, predominantly on postgraduate programmes, including the University of Pécs and Pázmány Péter Catholic University, at various times between 2009 and 2023.
He is the author or co-author of more than one hundred and twenty Hungarian- and English-language academic studies, specialist articles, book chapters, handbooks, university textbooks and legal commentaries, and has also served as a reviewer and editor of further commentaries. His principal monograph is: Market Regulation and Legal Remedies (Piacszabályozás és jogorvoslat, 2012, HVG-ORAC). He has served as co-editor and co-author of the leading comprehensive commentaries on administrative procedure, administrative litigation and public procurement published in 2013, 2016 and 2019 by Wolters Kluwer.
From 2011 until 2026, he was, inter alia, a member of the Editorial Board of Jogesetek Magyarázata (JEMA), an academic journal classified in category “A”.
He is a member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and its Public Law Subcommittee, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Competition Law Research Centre of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, and the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University.