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Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights{In accordance with Article 22 of the European Convention on Human Rights.}

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Hungary

Communication | Doc. 14147 | 03 October 2016

Author(s):
Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

1 List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Hungary

Letter from Mr Ferenc Robák, Ambassador of Hungary to the Council of Europe, to Mr Wojciech Sawicki, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, dated 26 August 2016

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With reference to your letter dated 29 June 2015, I am pleased to submit to you the names and curricula vitae of the Hungarian candidates for the post of judge to the European Court of Human Rights. The method of selection followed the existing Hungarian public law traditions.

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Information on national selection procedure for the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights

As to the Government Decree No. 2004/1994 (I. 21.), the Minister of Justice is responsible for the ECHR matters within the structure of the Government. After the notification of the Ambassador of Hungary in Strasbourg in connection with the election procedure, the minister discusses various competent experts concerning the nomination. He also discusses with the potential candidates in order to receive information about the depth and breadth of the professional knowledge and experience of the candidates. Upon the proposal of the minister, the Government takes the decision concerning the list of candidates. After the decision of the Government, the minister requests the Ambassador to transmit the necessary documents to the Advisory Panel and later to the Parliamentary Assembly. It was the method of selection during all the former proceedings, among others in the case of Professor András Sajó as well, with the only difference that unlike beforehand, now – upon the request of the Council of Europe – the Government does not rank the candidates but submits their names in alphabetical order, leaving it entirely to the Parliamentary Assembly to choose from the candidates.

The Hungarian Minister of Justice, László Trócsányi is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Szeged, former visiting professor at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, former judge at the Hungarian Constitutional Court, former substitute member of the Venice Commission. As a former ambassador (to France and to Belgium) as well as a former attorney, he was best in place to contact all the branches of the legal profession: he consulted university professors, attorneys, judges, constitutional judges and magistrates in order to create the list of candidates he – according to the practice existing for more than 25 years now in the Hungarian legal system – transmitted to the Government which then chose three names from this list, taking into account among others the recommendation of the Council of Europe as to the gender of the candidates. All his candidates fulfil the expectations existing vis-à-vis the nominees. Mr. Trócsányi – as an experienced legal expert – is convinced that the candidates would make excellent judges and could usefully contribute to the distinguished work of the European Court of Human Rights.

Consequently, the depth and breadth of the professional experience of the candidates is of a sufficiently high level for the position to exercise judicial functions in the ECHR, they are considered a jurisconsult of standing or a person entitled to be appointed to high judicial office within the meaning of Article 21 (1) of the Convention. They have been named after a wide range of consultations with various experts, having taken carefully into consideration not only the professional background of the candidates, but also their linguistic capacities as well as how they would qualify as judges.

May I also take this opportunity to inform you Secretary General that the Advisory Panel received the above information on the national selection procedure, and did not raise any objections. It is also important to stress the readiness of the Government to cooperate with the Council of Europe, as – upon the confidential opinion of the Advisory Panel – it has changed the list of candidates for the final submission on August 26. Moreover, for the first time in the history of the selection procedures of the ECHR judges, upon the initiative of the Minister of Justice, the Parliamentary committee responsible for human rights matters will hold a hearing of the candidates on the first possible occasion after the beginning of the autumn session of the Parliament (mid-September), just as it occurs as to the judge candidates of the General Court of the European Union.

Appendix 1 – Krisztina FÜZI-ROZSNYAI

2. CURRICULUM VITAENote

I. Personal details

Name, forename: Füzi-Rozsnyai, Krisztina

Sex: female

Date and place of birth: 31 August 1975, Budapest

Nationality: Hungarian

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

  • 1994–1999 – ELTE University Budapest, Faculty of Law
  • 1996–1997 – Ludwig Maximilian Universitat München
  • 1998–1999 – Université Paris-X
  • 1999 – doctor iuris summa cum laude ELTE University Budapest, Faculty of Law
  • 2001–2002 – Master program of the German University of Administrative Sciences (DUV) Speyer, magistra rerum publicarum
  • 2008 – PhD in legal studies summa cum laude, ELTE Budapest Legal Doctoral School
  • 2016 – Habilitation (ELTE University Budapest, Faculty of Law). Venia legendi for Public Law

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

  • 1999–2004 – Advisor at the Constitutional Court of Hungary
  • 2012–2014 – Chief advisor at the Supreme Court of Hungary

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

  • Department of Administrative Law, Faculty of Law of University ELTE, Budapest

1999–2008 – assistant lecturer,

2008–2016 – assistant professor, and

since 2016 – associate professor

  • since July 2015 – Ministerial Commissioner for the Drafting of the Code on Administrative Court Procedure
  • 2008–2009 – public servant at the Regional Government Office, Budapest

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Teaching Administrative Law with special emphasis on Human Rights

Promoting the ideas of effective judicial protection in the field of administrative law in teaching, scholarly activities and through the drafting works of the Code on Administrative Litigation

V. Public activities

a. Public office

None

b. Elected posts

Member of the Appellate Board of the National Accreditation Council 2012-2015

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None

VI. Other activities

a. Field

b. Duration

c. Functions

  • Membership in editorial boards:

ELTE Law Journal (editor, Public Law)

Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review (Wolter Kluwers)

VII. Publications and other works

Full list of publications (Number of publications: 73): https://vm.mtmt.hu//search/slist.php?nwi=1&inited=1&ty_on=1&url_on=1&cite_type=2&orderby=3D1a&location=mtmt&stn=1&AuthorID=10019512

  • Hoffman István, Fazekas János, Rozsnyai Krisztina: Concentrating or Centralising Public Services? The Changing Roles of the Hungarian Inter-Municipal Associations in the last Decades. Lex localis-journal of local self-government 14:(3) pp. 451-471. (2016)
  • Balázs István, Nagy Marianna, Rozsnyai Krisztina: La reconnaissance des actes administratifs étrangers en Hongrie. In: Rodriguez J, Munoz A (ed.) Recognition of Foreign Administrative Acts.: Recognition of Foreign Administrative Acts in Hungary. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. pp. 193-217. (ISBN:9783319189734)
  • István Hoffman, Krisztina Rozsnyai: The Supervision of Self-Government Bodies' Regulation in Hungary. Lex localis-journal of local self-government 13:(3) pp. 485-502. (2015)
  • Krisztina Rozsnyai: Von Aarhus nach Budapest, Offentliche verwaltung: zeitschrift fur offentliches recht und verwaltungswissenschaft 68:(6) pp. 228-234. (2015)
  • Krisztina Rozsnyai: Public Participation In Administrative Procedures: Possibilities And Recent Developments In Hungary Curentul juridic 58:(3) pp. 50-66. (2014)
  • Krisztina Rozsnyai: Änderungen im System des Verwaltungsrechtsschutzes in Ungarn. Offentliche verwaltung : zeitschrift fur offentliches recht und verwaltungswissenschaft 65:(9) pp. 335-342. (2013)
  • Krisztina Rozsnyai: The Courts as Promoters of Good Governance. In: Government vs. Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: From Pre-Weberianism to Neo-Weberianism? Presented Papers from the 22nd NISPAcee Annual Conference, 2014. (ISBN:978-80-89013-72-2)
  • Krisztina Rozsnyai: Richterliche Unabhängigkeit und die Instrumente zur Wahrung der Rechtseinheit. Annales universitatis scientiarum budapestinensis de rolando eötvös nominatae - sectio iuridica LII:(52) pp. 179-192. (2011)
  • Krisztina Rozsnyai: Europäisierung des ungarischen Verwaltungsverfahrensrechts. In: Werner Heun, Volker Lipp (szerk.) Europäisierung des Rechts: Deutsch-Ungarisches Kolloquium Budapest 2007. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag, 2008. pp. 199-211. (ISBN:978-3-940344-45-8)
  • Krisztina Rozsnyai: Gechichte der Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit in Ungarn. In: In: Karl-Peter Sommermann; Bert Schaffarzik: Handbuch der Geschichte der Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit in Deutschland und Europa. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, (to be published in December 2016)

VIII. Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Speaking

very good

good

fair

very good

good

fair

very good

good

fair

a. First language

 

Hungarian

X

   

X

   

X

   

b. Official languages

 

English

X

   

X

   

X

   

French

 

X

   

X

   

X

 

c. Other languages

 

German

X

   

X

   

X

   

IX. Please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court.

I confirm my readiness to follow intensive language classes.

X. Other relevant information

Married since 2002, four daughters.

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

Appendix 2 – Balázs SCHANDA

3. CURRICULUM VITAE

I. Personal details

Name, forename: Schanda, Balázs

Sex: male

Date and place of birth: 18 August 1968, Budapest

Nationality : Hungarian

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

  • 1993 – Lawyer (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law)
  • 1996 – Bar exam
  • 1999 – Licenciate in canon law (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Post-graduate Institute of Canon Law)
  • 2003 – PhD in legal studies (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law)
  • 2010 – habilitation (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences)

Studies abroad:

  • 1992 – Trier, Germany, TEMPUS scholarship, 6 months
  • 1994 – Bonn, Germany, Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst research grant, four months
  • 1994 – Birmingham, United Kingdom “European Human Rights Law and Practice Program”, 10 weeks
  • 1997 – New York, USA, “visiting scholar” at the Columbia University “Religion, Human Rights, Religious Freedom Program” (four months)

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

No judicial activities

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

  • University professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (subjects taught: constitutional law, ecclesiastical law, international human rights)
  • Previous professional activities:

Constitutional Court of the Republic of Hungary

  • law clerk (March 1, 1993 – December 31, 1996)
  • researcher (January 1, 1997 – May 31, 1998)
  • counsellor (June 1, 1998 – May 31, 1999)

Ministry of National Cultural Heritage

  • deputy director (June 1, 1999 – June 30, 2002)

Prime Ministers’ Office

  • deputy director (July 2002)
  • senior counsellor (August 1, 2002 – December 31, 2002)

Constitutional Court of the Republic of Hungary

  • senior counsellor (January 1, 2003 – April 2007)

Pázmány Péter Catholic University

  • head of the Department of Constitutional Law (since September 2006)
  • dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (July 1, 2007-2013)
  • university professor (2012- )

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

None

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Teaching fundamental rights and international human rights law.

Board member of the Holocaust Documentation Centre Memorial Public Foundation (form 2002 to 2004)

Alternate member of the Management Board (2010-2015) of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

V. Public activities

a. Public office

None

b. Elected posts

None

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None

VI. Other activities

a. Field

b. Duration

c. Functions

  • European Consortium for Church and State Research – membership (since 2004, president in 2016)
  • International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (membership)
  • Membership in editorial boards/scientific councils: Iustum Aequum Salutare, Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego, In Medias Res, Association of Hungarian Constitutional Lawyers
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected member of the General Assembly 2012-15, elected member of the Committee on Legal and Political Sciences (2012-15)
  • Hungarian Accreditation Committee – member of the Expert Committee of Social Sciences (since 2011)
  • Bar exam examiner (since 2013)

VII. Publications and other works

  • Schanda Balázs: Religion and Law in Hungary, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International 2015 (second edition), 116 p. (International Encyclopedia of Laws/Religion)
  • Schanda Balázs: Zwei Jahre danach. Die Chanchen des ungarischen Grundgesetzes von 2011, In: Ellen Bos, Pócza Kálmán (eds.) Verfassunggebung in konsolidierten Demokratien: Neubeginn oder Verfall eines Systems? [Constitution Building in Consolidated Democracies: a New Beginning or Decay of a Political System]. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014. pp. 293-307
  • Schanda Balázs: The Freedom of Religious Association in Hungary: Recent Developments, religion and human rights: an international journal 8 (2013): pp. 65-75
  • Schanda Balázs: Ein neues Religionsrecht in Ungarn, In: Rees Wilhelm, Roca María, Schanda Balázs (eds.) Neuere Entwicklungen im Religionsrecht europäischer Staaten. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2013. pp. 571-586
  • Schanda Balázs: Christlich oder neutral? Die Identität des neuen ungarischen Grundgesetzes
In: Küpper Herbert, Csehi Zoltán, Láng Csaba (eds.), Vier Jahre ungarisches Grundgesetz. 136 p.  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016.  (Studien des Instituts für Ostrecht München; 80. ISBN:978-3-631-67166-5)
  • Schanda Balázs: Considerations on the place of religion in constitutional law. In: Csehi Zoltán, Schanda Balázs, Sonnevend Pál (eds.) Viva Vox Iuris Civilis: Tanulmányok Sólyom László tiszteletére 70. születésnapja alkalmából.. 632 p. Budapest: Szent István Társulat, 2012. pp. 278-285. (Xenia ; Bibliotheca iuridica; 42., ISBN:978-963-277-327-8)
  • Schanda Balázs : Állami egyházjog (Ecclesiastical law), Budapest: Szent István Társulat 2012, 150 p. (A Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Jog- és Államtudományi Karának tankönyvei)
  • Schanda Balázs: The Recent Developments of Church-State Relations in Central Europe, In: Ferrari Slivio, Cristofori Rinaldo (eds.) Law and Religion in the 21st Century: Relations between States and Religious Communities. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. pp. 157-165
  • Schanda Balázs: Das Recht der Religionsgemeinschaften in Ungarn, In: Lienemann Wolfgang, Reuter Hans-Richard (eds.) Das Recht der Religionsgemeinschaften in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2005. pp. 547-568
  • Schanda Balázs: State and Church in Hungary, In: Robbers, Gerhard (ed.) State and Church in the European Union. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2005. pp. 323-345

Full list of publications:

https://vm.mtmt.hu//search/slist.php?nwi=1&inited=1&ty_on=1&url_on=1&cite_type=2&orderby=3D1a&lang=1&location=mtmt&stn=1&AuthorID=10001202

Total number of publications: 172

VIII. Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Speaking

very good

good

fair

very good

good

fair

very good

good

fair

a. First language

 

Hungarian

X

   

X

   

X

   

b. Official languages

 

English

X

   

X

   

X

   

French

   

X

   

X

   

X

c. Other languages

 

German

X

     

X

 

X

   

Italian

 

X

     

X

   

X

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court.

I confirm my readiness to follow intensive language classes in French.

X. Other relevant information

Married since 2003, four children.

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

I confirm to take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected judge.

Appendix 3 – Zoltán TALLÓDI

4. CURRICULUM VITAE

I. Personal details

Name, forename: Tallódi, Zoltán

Sex: male

Date and place of birth: 31 December 1965, Budapest

Nationality : Hungarian

II. Education and academic and other qualifications:

  • ELTE Apáczai Csere János Secondary School, Budapest 1980-1984
  • Eötvös Loránd University Law School, law degree, Budapest 1985-1990
  • Advanced Legal Studies, Diploma, Budapest, 1992
  • Human Rights in Europe - Community Law Programme: European Law Academy, Florence 1991
  • Drafter Training for Lawyers, Public Law Institute, New Orleans 1995
  • Human rights postgraduate training programme, Birmingham University 1997
  • Community Law training: Cyprus Academy of Administration, Nicosia, 1999
  • Community Law Postgraduate Training, European Administration Institute, Budapest 2000
  • PhD studies: Eötvös Loránd University, Law School, Budapest, since 2005
  • Training for the future leaders of the public administration, Academy of the Training for the Leaders of the Public Administration, Budapest, 2009

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

Work:

  • Legal adviser, International Law Department, National Bank of Hungary, 1990
  • Legal adviser, Public Law Department, Ministry of Justice, 1990-1998
  • Senior legal adviser, Human Rights Department, Ministry of Justice, 1998-2006
  • Co-agent before the Government before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), International Cooperation Department, Strasbourg Court Representation Unit of the Ministry of Justice, 1999-2012
  • Taking part in the Anti-discrimination programme of the EU (2002-2003)
  • National liaison officer of the Ministry of Justice to the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), since 2002
  • Representing Hungary in the Committee dealing with the Development of Human Rights of the Council of Europe (DH-DEV), 2003-2008
  • National Point of Contact in hate crime matters (OSCE), since 2011
  • Agent of the Government before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Human Rights Unit of the International Criminal Law and Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Justice, since 2012
  • Representing Hungary in the Steering Committee of the Council of Europe (CDDH)

Education:

  • Lectures on the topic of the human rights, organized by the Council of Europe in Russia and Georgia (1999-2001)
  • Taking part as a lecturer in the trainings of the István Bibó College (2003-2006)
  • Lecturer of the Constitutional Law Department of the Eötvös Loránd University, Law School, since 2000
  • Lectures at the Corvinus University of Budapest in the field of Constitutional Law, International Law, 2004-2010
  • Lectures at the National Judicial Council Judge Academy in the field of human rights, especially the case law of the ECHR, since 2004
  • Lecturer of the Harsányi János High School (International Law), Budapest, 2006-2009
  • Lecturer of the Janus Pannonius University, Law School (for postgraduate students), Pécs, since 2013,

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Teaching human rights and the case law of the ECHR, since 2001

V. Public activities

a. Public office

b. Elected posts

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

VI. Other activities

a. Field

b. Duration

c. Functions

  • Membership in editorial board of the human rights journal Acta Humana (2007-2010)
  • Member of the state examination committee of Eötvös Loránd University, Law School, Budapest, since 2001

VII. Publications and other works

  • Legislative drafting in the United States – Jogtudományi Közlöny, Budapest, October 1995
  • The legal status of the Parliament – Magyar Jog, Budapest, Volume 4. 1997
  • Summaries of the most important judgments of the ECHR – 4 publications/year (2003-2006), Fundamentum, Budapest
  • Book review of András Grád: The Handbook on the human rights judiciary in Strasbourg – Acta Humana, Budapest, 2005/3
  • Strasbourg and the Hungarian case law – Fundamentum 2005/1
  • Changes Effected in the Hungarian Legislation in the field of Public Law, European Public Law Review, December 2006
  • The activity of the Agency before the European Court of Human Rights, Acta Humana, Budapest, 2007/IV
  • The right of assembly in the case law of the ECHR, Acta Humana, Budapest, 2008/IV
  • The problem of prison overcrowding in the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, Börtönügyi Szemle, Budapest, 2016/1

VIII. Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Speaking

very good

good

fair

very good

good

fair

very good

good

fair

a. First language

 

Hungarian

X

   

X

   

X

   

b. Official languages

 

English

X

   

X

   

X

   

French

                 

c. Other languages

 

German

 

X

   

X

   

X

 

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court.

I confirm my intention to follow intensive language classes of the French language prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of my term of duty if elected a judge on the Court.

X. Other relevant information

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.