Josef Baxa (born 31 December 1959) is a Czech lawyer.

Baxa graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University with the thesis on Historical Development of Civil Legislation in the Czechoslovakia.

In 1983, he passed the rigorous examination and received the JUDr degree.

After the Velvet Revolution, as a judge, he devoted himself to the rehabilitation of convicted citizens from the 1950s.

[1] The Senate confirmed Baxa as Justice of the Constitutional Court on 31 May 2023 by 63 votes out of 79 senators present and on 5 June 2023 he was sworn in by President Petr Pavel.