doc. JUDr. Peter Molnár, PhD.
Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
He graduated at the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice in 1997. Three years later he was awarded the title of juris utriusque doctor.
From 1997 until 2000 he worked as a distraint officer's clerk and subsequently as a candidate-distraint officer. He passed the professional examination for certified distraint officers in 1999. He worked as a certified distraint officer from 2001 until he was appointed a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic.
Since 2000 he has lectured and performed academic activities in the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, where from 2006 until 2009 he undertook his doctoral studies and was awarded the PhD degree. In 2016, after a successful habilitation, he was awarded the research and pedagogical title of Associate Professor in Civil Law (Docent). He is co-guarantor for this field of study and a member of the Committee for Doctoral Study in the area of Law at UPJŠ in Košice. As an external member of the pedagogical staff at the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic, he has been involved in the training of current and future judges and prosecutors since 2010.
From 2010 until 2012 he was President of the Slovak Chamber of Distraint Officers.
He was a member of the Legislative Commission of the Slovak Chamber of Distraint Officers (2001 – 2005), the Disciplinary Board of the Slovak Chamber of Distraint Officers (2005 – 2007), the Presidium of the Slovak Chamber of Distraint Officers (2007 – 2019), representative of the Slovak Chamber of Distraint Officers in the European Judicial Network (EJN) for civil and commercial matters (since 2010), member of the Permanent Council of the International Organization of Certified Distraint Officers (UIHJ) in Paris (2010-2012), and member of the Research Council at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava (2011 – 2014) and of the Research Council at the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (since 2019).
He participated in work on the amendment to the Code of Distraint Procedure (2009 – 2016), the recodification of the Code of Civil Procedure (2012 – 2015), the amendment to the Notarial Procedure Code (2012), the amendment to the Arbitration Law (2012) and the Voluntary Auction Law (2013). He is author and co-author of several books, university textbooks, academic works and contributions published in domestic and foreign journals and collections. He is a co-author of the Commentary on the Law on the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic (C. H. Beck, 2020).
Since August 2019 he has been a substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) (Slovak Republic).
He was appointed a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic on 17th April 2019.