Barna Berke, Dr.
State Secretary for European and International Cooperation, Ministry of Justice
Language skills
- English
- French
Qualifications
- Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, 1985-1990
- Université de Paris II
- University of Oxford, Linacre College
- McGeorge School of Law
- University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College
- European University Institute, Firenze
- T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague
- Unidroit Rome
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies London
Internships
- The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, London
- Temple Fountain Court London
- Gide Loyrette Nouel Paris
- Legum Magister at the University of Stockholm, with the special award of The Edvard Cassel Foundation and the University of Stockholm, 1995
Work experience
- Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Department of Civil International Law, assistant lecturer, 1990 & senior lecturer, 1995-1999
- Member of the Budapest Bar Association, 1992-1997 & 2003-present
- Co-author of the first Hungarian course book on the Legal Issues of Economic Integration in the European Economic Community, 1994 (new editions: 1998, 2003, 2013)
- Lecturer at the postgraduate programmes of the European Study Centre organised by the ELTE Institute of Legal Studies and Budapest University of Economics
- Jean Monnet Professor of European Economic Integration and European Union Law, 1996
- Counsellor on European Integration, Supervisor of the Integration Strategy Working Group, Counsellor on the legal conditions of the EU accession
- Junior Fellow of Collegium Budapest, 1998/1999, Tutor of the Invisible College
- Advisor to the President of the Constitutional Court, 1997-1998
- Hungarian Member of the Committee on Legal Affairs, UNESCO, 1999-2001
- Vice-president of the Hungarian Competition Authority, President of the Competition Council, 2000-2002
- Arbitrator of the Permanent Financial and Capital Market Court of Arbitration, 2008-2014
- Lawyer, 2003-present. Specialised in: EU economic law, economic competition law, civil law, international private law, constitutional law, administrative law