current member of the constitutional court

Member of the Constitutional Court since 16 September 2026.

He obtained his law degree summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged in 2003. At the same Faculty, he also completed the programme in German business law and European law operated jointly with the University of Potsdam. He has taught at the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged ever since. He obtained his PhD in 2008, completed his habilitation in 2015 and, in 2018, was appointed Professor at the Institute of Criminal Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged. Between 2021 and 2022, he headed the Institute of Public Law at the Szeged Faculty of Law. From 2016 until 2022, he served as Vice-Dean for Education. He also taught at the Department of Criminal Procedure and Penitentiary Law of the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University between 2015 and 2022 and served as an external lecturer on the postgraduate specialist lawyer programme in media law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

His research focuses upon general-part and doctrinal questions of criminal law, the criminal law governing sexual offences, the protection of personality through criminal law, and the constitutional dimensions of criminal law. His teaching encompasses substantive criminal law, criminal procedural law, constitutional criminal law and criminal law relating to the media. Since 2012, he has been a co-author of the Comprehensive Commentary on the Criminal Code. He has undertaken a number of research visits of varying duration in Austria and Germany and has delivered lectures at, among others, the universities of Kraków, Istanbul and Padua. In 2010, he spent one year at the University of Osnabrück as a Humboldt Fellow. He received the Junior Prima Award in 2011 in the category of Hungarian Science, held a Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 2011 and 2014, and was awarded the Master Teacher Gold Medal in 2015.

Alongside his teaching and research activities, he has maintained extensive professional links with the practising legal profession. He completed his legal professional examinations in 2015 and serves as an examiner on the Legal Professional Examination Board and as a member of the Judicial Experts Examination Board. Between 2014 and 2024, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the legal journal Jogesetek Magyarázata (JeMa). He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Magyar Jog. Between 2021 and 2026, he served as the criminal-law rapporteur of the Hungarian Lawyers’ Association. He was also a member of the Curia’s case-law analysis group established to review judicial practice concerning corruption offences.