Professor profile
Introduction
He was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1956. In 1980, he became a Doctor of law and political sciences after graduating at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. In 1985 he passed the bar exam and became a member of the Budapest Bar Association. After his first job as legal librarian at the Hungarian Parliamentary Library, from 1988 Mr. Trócsányi started working as a research assistant then research associate at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2000, he became professor at the University of Szeged, then in 2004, Director of the International and Regional Studies Institute. Between 2007 and 2009 he was Guest professor at the Faculty of Law, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and Guest lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain. Also, between 2014 – 2018 Mr. Trócsányi was a research Professor at the National University of Public Service, Hungary. He has been a research Professor at the Faculty of Law, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary since 2018 where he has been Rector since 2022.
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The President of Hungary appointed Mr. Trócsányi in 2000 as Ambassador to Belgium, and Luxembourg until 2004 (in Luxemburg until 2003). Between 2004 and 2007, he was the President of International Relations Committee of the Budapest Bar Association. From 2007, he served as a Judge of the Constitutional Court. In 2010 he continued his diplomatic career, he became Ambassador to France. From 2014 to 2019, László Trócsányi was Minister of Justice of Hungary, from he resigned in 2019 to become a Member of the European Parliament. Besides his professional and educational activities, Mr. Trócsányi was Substitute member, Venice Commission, Council of Europe between 2005 and 2013. Since 2015, he has been member of the Board, European Public Law Organization, and since 2020 he has been President of the Hungarian Lawyers Association. Mr. László Trócsányi has been awarded by numerous countries: in 1996 he received the Palmes Académiques from the French Government, in 2002 he became Grand Officer Class of the Order of Leopold II (Belgium). In 2005 he received the Pro Universitate Award from the University of Szeged and the Eötvös Károly Award from the Budapest Bar Association. He became Doctor Honoris Causa at the UNE, Uzhhorod in 2016 and at University of Miskolc in 2018. In 2018, he became Honorary Citizen of Csongrád County. In 2018 he was honoured by the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic and in 2019 he became Commander of The National Order of the Cedar of the Republic of Lebanon.
- Research group: European integration
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Dr. László Trócsányi
More about work
He is a member of the research group ‘Equality in an Ever-Integrating Europe’ in the Central European Professors’ Network 2024.
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He is member of the editorial board of the following book series and scientific journals of the CEA Publishing: (a) Studies of the Central European Professors’ Network, (b) Central Europesn Journal of Comparative Law. He is (co)editor and author in the following books of the CEA Publishing: (a) Comparative Constitutionalism in Central Europe: Analysis on Certain Central and Eastern European Countries (2022). He is author in the following books of the CEA Publishing: (a) Maastricht 30 (2024).
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