JUDr. Ladislav Duditš
Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
b. 1968
He graduated at the Faculty of Law of University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik (UPJŠ) in Košice in 1990, in 2001 he was awarded the degree iuris utriusque doctor at the University of Matej Bel in Banská Bystrica. He was awarded the academic title "philosophiae doctor" at the UPJŠ Faculty of Law in 2022 after defending his dissertation.
In 1991 he became candidate-judge at the Regional Court of Košice. In 1993, after he successfully passed the professional judicial examination, he was appointed as a judge at the District Court of Košice I, then from 1997 until 2007 at the District Court of Košice II, where he also worked in the position of Vice President of the court, and from 2008 until 2019 he worked as a judge at the Regional Court of Košice.
From 2007 until 2008 he undertook a judge's internship at the Ministry for Justice of the Slovak Republic, where he was in charge of the civil law section.
He was the national representative of the Slovak Republic in the Joint Supervisory Authority for EUROJUST in The Hague (2004-2007), as liaison officer for the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters at the European Commission in Brussels (2004-2010), and from 2007 he represented the Slovak Republic in the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. From 2016 to 2023 ,he was an ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
Since 2003 he has actively cooperated with the Civil Law Department at the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, and since 2010 he has been an external member of the Pedagogical Board of the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic. In his lectures, he focuses primarily on civil procedural law, distraint law, substantive civil law and labor law.
He was a member of the Commission for Recodification of Civil Procedural Law (2012-2015). He has undertaken several study visits abroad (Spain, Germany, Luxembourg, Canada, USA, Denmark, Great Britain).
He has published several articles in domestic journals. He was one of the authors of several professional publications and commentaries to laws, including the Commentary on the Law on the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic (C. H. Beck, 2020).
He was appointed a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic on 10th October 2019.