current member of the constitutional court

Balázs SCHANDA

Born year: 1968

Member of the Constitutional Court since 1 December 2016.

He graduated in law from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University in 1993. From 1993 to 1999 he was a staff member at the Constitutional Court. From 1999 to 2002, he headed the Department of Church Information and Coordination at the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage. From 2003 to 2007 he worked again at the Constitutional Court. He passed the bar exam in 1996, obtained a licence in canon law in 1999, a PhD in 2003 and a habilitation in 2010.

He was appointed a university professor in 2012. His professional interests focus mainly on constitutional law and public ecclesiastical law. He was a lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University and later at the Faculty of Law of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. From 2006 he was the Head of the Department of Constitutional Law, and between 2007 and 2013 he was Dean of the Faculty.