JUDr. Rastislav Kaššák, PhD.
Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
b. 1977
He graduated at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in 2001, and in 2005 following a successful titular examination, he was awarded the title of iuris utriusque doctor.
From 2001 until 2005 he worked as a trainee lawyer in the CONSULTA commercial law firm. He passed the bar examination in 2005 and from that year until his appointment as a judge of the Constitutional Court he worked as an attorney (from 2005 until 2006 he was suspended from advocacy due to his position as a lawyer in the ANATEMA partnership)
From 2006 until 2009 he worked as an internal doctoral student at the Department of Administrative and Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where he was awarded the PhD degree in the field of administrative law. From 2008 until 2011 he worked there as a university teacher and researcher.
From 2008 he worked as a university teacher at the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University. From 2012 until 2014 he was Head of the Department of Administrative Law, Financial Law and Environmental Law in the Institute of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University. He is also member of the titular examinations committee and a member of the Research Council of the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University. From 2016 until 2021 he was Chairman of the Disciplinary Board of the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University.
From 2007 until 2013 he was a substitute member and a member of the Disciplinary Board of the Slovak Bar Association, from 2010 until 2013 he chaired the 7th Disciplinary Panel of the Slovak Bar Association, and from 2017 until his appointment as a judge of the Constitutional Court he was substitute member and then ad hoc Chair and member of the Disciplinary Panels. In 2017 he also became a member of the Slovak Bar Association Working Group for Public Law.
From 2012 until 2014, he was a student ombudsman for university students in the Slovak Republic. In the years 2013 - 2016 he worked as assistant for legislation of the Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Alojz Hlina.
In 2014 he was appointed by the Minister for Justice of the Slovak Republic as a member of the Disciplinary Panel of the Slovak Chamber of Distraint Officers.
On 11th May 2016, he was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic (where he worked until he was appointed as Judge of the Constitutional Court) by the Government of the Slovak Republic. On 10th July 2017 he was also invited to join the State Commission for Elections and Control of Political Party Financing.
Since 2016, he has been a member of the Board of Editors of the Central and Eastern European Legal Studies journal, published by the European Public Law Organization.
He is an author and reviewer of several professional publications, research studies and specialized articles dealing mainly with the issues of administrative law, European administrative law, cadastral law and land law.
He was appointed a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic on 10th October 2019.