Upon the proposal and request of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary, the Senate of Károli Gáspár University at its session on 22 February 2021 endorsed unanimously that vice rector for educational affairs Dr Ágnes Czine shall continue her service as acting rector.
At the beginning of the session of the Senate, acting rector Dr Czine expressed the gratitude of the university to professor István Szabó whose six-year-long term as the presiding bishop of the Reformed Church in Hungary ended in December 2020. Dr Czine also thanked the service of the outgoing lay chairperson of the Synod, Dr Pál Huszár and greeted the newly elected leaders of our church: presiding bishop Zoltán Balog and lay chairperson János Molnár.
Dr. Ágnes Czine works as associate professor of the Faculty of Law of the Károli Gáspár University of RCH. Dr. Czine has been serving, among others, as Judge of the Constitutional Court since 2014 when she was elected to this position by the Hungarian National Assembly. "I am pleased to be able to teach at a university where talent management is a major value, and the university not only 'takes care' of outstanding students, but also tries to prepare them for professionally sensitive, socially demanding intellectual tasks," she said in an earlier interview. She feels compelled to pass on to young people all the experience she had gained as a judge for decades.
Dr. Czine graduated from the Faculty Eötvös Loránd University in 1981. She is specialist in economic criminal law. In 1984, she was appointed to judge to Central District Court of Pest, after that to the Buda Environs District Court. From 1994, she was the President of the Buda Environs District Court. From 1999, she was judge at Pest County Court. From 2003, she was the leading judge of the Criminal College of the Budapest-Capital Regional Court of Appeal.
She obtained her Ph.D degree in 2012, the subject of her research was the human trafficking as the manifestation of organized crime. She has been teaching criminal law and criminal procedure at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University and at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church. She is the President of the Consultant Judges in European Law and she is appointed as Contact Point of the European Judicial Network (EJN).