New President of the Constitutional Court elected

Imre Juhász graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University in 1986. In 1989, he passed the bar exam. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2011. In 2000, he obtained a second degree in European law. From 1986 to 1992 he was an assistant lecturer at the Department of Civil Procedural Law at the ELTE, from 1992 he was an assistant professor, and since 2018 he has been an associate professor.

From 1990/1991 to 2013 he also worked as an attorney-at-law. In the first half of the 1990s, he was involved in the UNHCR’s advocacy programme, providing legal representation for refugees from the former Yugoslavia and Transylvania.

He was a founding member of the Civil Lawyer Commission (CJB), set up to investigate the causes of the mass human rights violations in the autumn of 2006. He was a member of the Independent Law Enforcement Complaints Board from February 2008 and a member and President of the Board from 2010 until his election as a Justice of the Constitutional Court in 2013.

Since 1 January 2013, he has represented Hungary on the Council of Europe’s Committee against Racism and Intolerance.

Elected by Parliament in March 2013 as a member of the Constitutional Court, he took office on 3 April 2013. He was appointed as a judge for an indefinite term by the President of the Republic on 1 July 2020.

Imre Juhász was elected President of the Constitutional Court by Parliament on 11 June 2024.