JUDr. Tomáš Langášek, LL.M.
(* 1974)

He was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court on 6 June 2024. Thus, he is temporarily relieved of his duties as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court for the duration of his term as a judge of the Constitutional Court.

He holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law at Charles University, Prague (1999). He also obtained a Master of Law degree (LL.M.) from Central European University, Budapest, in comparative constitutional law (2000). In 2012, he earned a JUDr. degree from Masaryk University in Brno for his monograph on The Czechoslovak Constitutional Court And Its Fate Between 1920-1948. Between 2001-2003, he worked at the Office of the Public Defender of Rights (ombudsperson), where he focused on cases related to human rights violations, mainly in prison service and institutional and protective child care. He was a member of the Committee for Preventing Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, established by the Government Council for Human Rights from 2002 to 2005. He worked at the Constitutional Court for almost ten years, starting in 2003 as a law clerk to the President of the Court, later as the head of the Analytic Department, and subsequently, from 2009, as the Secretary-General. Between 2009 and 2013, he was a member of the Council of the Judicial Academy, and from 2010 to 2015, he served as an acting member of the Management Board of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union. He became a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court in March 2013. Since August 2016, he has presided over the Chamber for Electoral Matters, Referenda, and Political Parties. Between 2018 and 2023, he chaired the Disciplinary Chamber for Judges. In January 2022, the government appointed him a substitute member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.