Dr. Ágnes Czine, former Deputy Rector for Education of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, has been appointed by the Senate of the University to perform the duties of the Rector as of June 5.
The term of office of the acting Rector expires on the 30th of September. The former rector of the university, Professor József Zsengellér, resigned from his position.
Dr. Ágnes Czine works as associate professor of the Faculty of Law of the Károli Gáspár University of RCH, and until now she served as Deputy Rector for Education. Dr. Czine has been working, 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. “My goal is for young people to use and enrich further this accumulated knowledge. The aim is for them to learn substantive and procedural law not only in theory, as part of the curriculum, but to enable them to see and understand how an important role this area of law plays in everyday life,” she explained.
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). The Hungarian Parliament elected her Judge of the Constitutional Court in September 2014.
The newly appointed Rector is author of more than a hundred professional publications and invited speaker of many local and international conferences. In addition to the academic work and university lectures, she regularly arranges trial court visits and simulations for her students.