Mojmír Mamojka (born 29 July 1950) is a Slovak jurist, academic and politician. He was a

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of the National Council for

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from 2006 to 2016. In 2017, he was appointed a judge of the

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. In 2020, he was forced to resign from the court due to suspicions of being in contact with the sentenced fraudster

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Academic career

Mamjoka studied law at the

Comenius University Comenius University Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...

. After graduating in 1973, he worked as a lawyer at the Ministry of Finance and from 1977 to 1985 pursued a Candidature. In 1985 he became Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law

, where he became the Dean from 1997 to 2003. In 2003 he founded a new Law Faculty at the

Matej Bel University Matej Bel University (commonly referred as Matej Bel or UMB), () is a public research university in the central Slovak town of Banská Bystrica. The university was established in 1992. It bears the name of Matthias Bel, a Hungarian-Slovak Luthe ...

and became its Dean. In 2006 he became the Dean at the Danubius University. During his tenure, several prominent Czech politicians, including his personal friend

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, received law degrees from the university without a proof of having actually studied law, leading to large-scale criticism of the university in the Czech Republic. In 2014, he again became the Dean at the

, where he returned in 2020 after his resignation from the Constitutional Court. As of 2022, he still teaches there.

Public career

Between 2006 and 2016 Mamojka served as an MP in the caucus of

. As an MP, he kept a rather low profile, although he was widely criticized by Slovak academics for attempting to reform accreditation in a way that would lower requirements, a change that would benefit the Danubius University, where he was active at the time. In 2015, Mamojka was nominated by the parliament for the vacant position of a judge at the Constitutional court. The president

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resisted the nomination, due to Mamojka's political background, but relented after 2017 Constitutional court ruling stating that the president must pick the judges from the nominees of the parliament. On 14 December 2017, Mamojka became a judge along with Miroslav Duriš and fellow MP Jana Laššáková. In May 2020, information about Mamojka's alleged contacts with the sentenced fraudster

became public. The information was particularly damaging for Mamojka, who was the judge responsible for the decision about Kočner's appeal against his imprisonment. Mamojka rejected the allegations, but resigned his judgeship due to "media pressure and health issues".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mamojka, Mojmir 1950 births Living people Comenius University alumni Academic staff of Comenius University Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2006-2010 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2010-2012 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2012–2016 People from Zvolen