JUDr. Miroslav Duriš, PhD.
Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
b. 1966
He graduated at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1988. In 1989, after passing the titular examinations at the Department of Criminal Law of the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, he was awarded the title of juris utriusque doctor. In 2009, at the Healthcare and Social Work University of St. Elisabeth in Bratislava he defended the dissertation entitled “Probation and mediation as one of the forms of social work in the judiciary” and was awarded the PhD degree.
From 1988, he worked at the Regional Prosecutor's Office of Banská Bystrica as a candidate-prosecutor to be enlisted in the District Prosecutor's Office of Liptovský Mikuláš, and two years later at the Regional Court of Banská Bystrica as a candidate-judge at the District Court of Liptovský Mikuláš.
After passing the judicial examinations in 1990, his full status as a judge was confirmed by the National Council of the Slovak Republic. Until 1995 he served as a judge and presiding judge of a senate for criminal cases at the District Court of Liptovský Mikuláš and from 1994 as Vice President responsible for the Criminal Section of the District Court of Liptovský Mikuláš.
In 1995, he was appointed as a notary in Liptovský Hrádok, under the jurisdiction of the District Court of Liptovský Mikuláš, later transferring to the main notary office in Liptovský Mikuláš, where he worked until he was appointed a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic. In 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2014, he was elected (four times in a row for the three-year term of office) to the Presidium of the Chamber of Notaries of the Slovak Republic by the Conference of Notaries of the Slovak Republic. He was its member from 2005 until he resigned after he was appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court. In 2007 he was elected President of the Presidium of the Chamber of Notaries of the Slovak Republic, and held the post until 2011.
From 2007 until 2011, as the President of the Chamber of Notaries of the Slovak Republic, he represented the Slovak notarial profession in the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE) residing in Brussels, which brings together 22 European notariats based on Latin civil law, as well as at the meetings of the member notariats of the International Union of Notaries (UIN), which brings together 87 notariats of so-called Latin type throughout the world.
In 2009, he held a one-year seat as a member of the Executive Board at the Council of European Union Notariats based in Brussels. Simultaneously, he also held the one-year seat of President of the Initiative of Central European Notariats in 2009.
From 2006 he worked as an external lecturer at the Healthcare and Social Work University of St. Elisabeth in Bratislava on study subjects covering the introduction to legal disciplines, civil and administrative law, European and constitutional law.
In 2006, he was nominated by the Presidium of the Chamber of Notaries of the Slovak Republic as a candidate for the position of Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic (he was not elected as a candidate by the National Council of the Slovak Republic). Again in 2014, he was nominated as a candidate for the position of Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic by the Presidium of the Chamber of Notaries of the Slovak Republic.
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 14th December 2017.