Réka Varga has been elected as the Vice President of the Constitutional Court

Réka Varga 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. In 2022 she was appointed as acting head of department. From 2021 to 2022, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Strategy at the National University of Public Service (NUPS). From 2022, she was the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the NUPS, and associate professor at the Department 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.

Réka Varga has been a Member of the Constitutional Court since 2 September 2023. On 18 June 2024, the plenary session of the Constitutional Court elected her as Vice President.

According to section 21 of the ACC and the Rules of Procedure, the Vice President shall be elected in secret ballot by the plenary session of the Constitutional Court from among the Members of the Constitutional Court on the proposal of the President. When the President is prevented from acting, the Vice President shall substitute the President, exercising the President’s powers, and carry out all tasks entrusted to her by the President.