He was born on 23 February 1953 in Lucenec, and he is married.
      He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava in 1976, after which he continued to work there as a research student. In 1979 he became an assistant lecturer, and from 1988 till February 1993 he was an assistant professor (except for the period, September-December 1989, when he worked in the Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences). In 1992-1993 he studied at the Faculty of Law, the University of Kiel as a Humboldt Scholar. In March 1993 he became an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Palacký University in Olomouc, and in May, 1995 he was appointed a full professor.
      President Vaclav Havel appointed him a Justice of the Constitutional Court on 15 July 1993.
      His scholarly work is concentrated on the fields of legal theory, legal logic, medical law, and general constitutional law. He has spoken on various issues in these fields at many professional conferences, lectured at foreign universities, and published a number of professional works, including his books, Rechtsnorm, Logik und Wahrheitswerte [Legal Norms, Logic and Truth Values], Nomos-Verlag, Baden Baden 1993, Zaklady vseobecne statovedy [The Foundations of the General Theory of the State], Vsehrd, Praha 1995, Nastin filozofie prava [The Outline of Philosophy of Law], Vaehrd, Praha 2000, Abriß der Rechtsphilosophie (strukturelle Überlegungen) [The Outline of Legal Philosophy (Structural Reflections) ] Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, "Revolution und Recht" in der Tschechoslowakei 1989- 1992 [Revolution and Right in Czechoslovakia 1989-1992], (co- author), Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, Zakon o Ustavnim soudu. Komentar. [The Act on the Constitutional Court. Commentary.] C. H. Beck, Praha 2001, Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in der Tschechischen Republik [The Constitutional Judiciary in the Czech Republic], Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2001.