JUDr. Ivan Fiačan, PhD.
President of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
b. 1969
He graduated at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1991. From 1993 until 1995 he undertook external postgraduate study at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava and then from 2001-2002 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in the field of theory of state and law. He defended his dissertation thesis in the field of theory of state and law on the topic of “Status of Judicial Power in the System of Power Distribution” at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in 2002 and was awarded the academic degree “PhD.”.
From 1992 until 1995 he worked as a candidate-judge at the District Court of Liptovský Mikuláš. From 1995, after passing the professional judicial examination, he worked there as a judge, and from 1996 he was the Vice-President of that Court.
After being enrolled as a member the Slovak Bar Association in 1998, he worked as a lawyer based in Liptovský Mikuláš until he was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic. As a lawyer, he was mainly involved in commercial, civil, labor and bankruptcy law. He was a member of the Legislative Group of the Slovak Bar Association for Constitutional Law (2003-2004), Working Group of the Slovak Bar Association (2010 - 2015), member of the Board of the Slovak Bar Association (2010 - 2017) and member of the Slovak Bar Association Review Committee (2017 - 2019). From 2007 he was a member of the Examination Board of the Slovak Bar Association for the Bar Examination.
He is a co-author of the Commentary on the Law on the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic (Bratislava: C. H. Beck, 2020), the Commentary on the Law on Advocacy (Bratislava: C. H. Beck, 2013) and the Commentary on the Decree on Remuneration and Compensation of Attorneys for Provision of Legal Services (Bratislava: C. H. Beck, 2015).
Since 2019, he has been a member of the Research Board at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice.
He was appointed Judge and President of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic on 17th April 2019.