Lawyer. he worked as an agricultural cooperative legal adviser in 1962-7. In 1974, he became an assistant lecturer in the Faculty of State and Legal Studies at Pécs University. In 1977 to 1990, he was a senior researcher at the Trade Union Research Institute. He started to teach in the Faculty of State and Legal Studies of Miskolc University in 1988 and was appointed a professor there in 1991. Since 1995, he has taught also in the law department of Lajos Kossuth University.