doc. JUDr. Martin Vernarský, PhD.
Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
b. 1977
He graduated at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice in 2000 and in 2001, after passing the titular examination he was awarded the title of iuris utriusque doctor.
In 2000, he began working as a university teacher at the Faculty of Public Administration of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice. In the pedagogical and research spheres he focuses on selected branches of public law, especially administrative law and financial law.
In 2005, he was awarded the PhD degree in the field of administrative law at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where he was also appointed to the position of Associate Professor (docent) in 2015 after successful habilitation in the same field.
From 2001 to 2014 he was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, and in the years 2002 - 2010 and 2013 - 2014 he was a member of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Public Administration of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice. In 2014 - 2015 he held the office of Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice. He is a member of the Research Council of the Faculty of Public Administration of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice (since 2006), the Research Council of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice (since 2019), the PhD Study Committee in Commercial and Financial Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice (since 2011) and the PhD Study Committee in Public Policy and Public Administration at the Faculty of Public Administration of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice (since 2015).
He worked as an external advisor to the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic until 2019.
He has been invited as a lecturer on training courses for judges of the Administrative Divisions of Regional Courts and the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic (2008, 2011 and 2016).
He is the author or co-author of several monographs and university textbooks, and he has contributed to foreign and domestic legal research journals and collective volumes. He is a co-author of 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.