current member of the constitutional court

Réka VARGA

Member of the Constitutional Court since 2 September 2023.

She graduated in law from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University in 2001. From 2001 to 2009, she was legal advisor of the International Committee of the Red Cross. From 2009 to 2016 she was legal advisor of the Hungarian Red Cross, a volunteer since 2016. From 2016 to 2019 she was Head of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, from 2019 to 2020 Secretary General of the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, from 2020 to 2023 Senior Advisor for International Law at the Ministry of Justice. Since 2004, she has been an acting lecturer, senior lecturer and then associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. From 2021, she was a senior research fellow at the National University of Public Service, and from 2022, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies and associate university professor of the Department of International Law.

In 2013, she obtained a PhD degree. Her areas of specialisation are international law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, the relationship between international law and domestic law, the law of international organisations, immunity, law of international treaties.