current member of the constitutional court

Miklós LIGETI
Born year: 1977
Member of the Constitutional Court since 16 September 2026.
He obtained his law degree from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University in 2002 and passed the Hungarian legal professional examination in 2006.
Between 1999 and 2000, he served as an expert to the committee of the National Assembly responsible for environmental affairs.
From 2000 until 2002, he worked as a legal trainee in law firms and, between 2002 and 2007, as a junior research fellow at the National Institute of Criminology.
From 2007 onwards, he served successively as a civil servant, Head of Secretariat and Deputy Head of Department at the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement and subsequently at the Ministry of the Interior. In those capacities, he performed legislative drafting and codification duties, principally in the fields of substantive criminal law, criminal procedural law and legislation concerning the police and the national security services.
From 2012 until his election as a Justice of the Constitutional Court, he served as Legal Director of Transparency International Hungary Foundation, an organisation engaged in combating corruption. His responsibilities included monitoring and commenting upon legislation concerning the fight against corruption; making use of legal instruments relating to freedom of information; preparing and conducting litigation for access to data of public interest; initiating administrative proceedings in corruption-related matters; and lodging criminal complaints in cases involving suspected corruption.