Education

  • 1981 Juris Doctor (ELTE Faculty of Law)
  • 2002 LL.M. in economic criminal law (ELTE Faculty of Law)

Scientific Degrees

  • 2012 PhD (summa cum laude)
  • 2020 habilitated doctoral title

Professional Career

  • From July 1984 judge at the Central District Court of Pest, then at the Buda Environs District Court
  • From 1994 President of the Buda Environs District Court
  • From 1999 chairwoman of the Chamber for Criminal Law of the Pest County Court
  • From April 2003 chairwoman of the Chamber for Criminal Law of the Budapest Court of Appeal
  • Since 14 November 2014 member of the Constitutional Court

Positions related to the Hungarian Lawyers Association

  • 1998-2004: Board Member of the Pest County Organisation of the Hungarian Lawyers Association
  • Since 2018 Member of the Presidium of the Hungarian Lawyers Association
  • Since 1 December 2020 Member of the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Hungarian Law’
  • Long-time lecturer of professional events organised by the Hungarian Lawyers Association

Academic and educational activities

  • Since 2004 lecturer of criminal procedure law and criminal law on the Faculty of Law of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church
  • From 2006 President of the European Law Consultant Judges Association
  • From 2013 assistant professor
  • From 15 December 2014 honorary university professor
  • Since 2018 Deputy Head of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Institute of Criminal Sciences
  • Since 2016 Member of the Penitentiary Subcommittee of the Committee on Political Science and Law of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • External member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a public law association
  • Since 2020 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the scientific journal “Multidisciplinary Challenges, Diverse Answers”
  • Since 15 October 2020 habilitated associate professor
  • She teaches criminal law and criminal procedure law also in the Deák Ferenc Institute for Postgraduate Studies of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law
  • Since 1 September 2021 University professor

International Relations

  • Until becoming a member of the Constitutional Court, she was a designated contact point of the European Judicial Network in Hungary
  • Hungarian representative of “The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice” (CEPEJ)
  •  Since 1993 she has attended several trainings at prosecution offices and courts in Switzerland and Germany, organised by the Deutsche Stiftung für internationale rechtliche Zusammenarbeit, the Europäische Rechtsakademie and the European Judicial Network
  • she was a participant and a lecturer of the courses organised by the German Judicial Academy

Awards

  • In 2011 she received the Juhász Andor Award, Gold Level