Geert Van Calster

Who is Geert Van Calster?

Geert Van Calster, LL.M., PhD, is a Belgian lawyer and legal scholar, focusing on conflict of laws, international trade law, EU and international environmental law, and EU economic law. He is Professor of Law at KU Leuven, head of its department of European and International Law, a senior fellow at KU Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies, and formerly director of the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies at KU Leuven and program director for the Master of Energy and Environmental Law. He is also a visiting professor at Monash University and the China-EU School of Law in Beijing, as well as a visiting lecturer at King's College, London and a former visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford. He is also a counsel in the Brussels office of DLA Piper. He was called to the bar in 1999.

He graduated in law at Leuven in 1993, and received an LL.M. from the College of Europe and a PhD from Leuven in 1999. He was Chevening Scholar at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford 1997-1998.

Prof Van Calster keeps a blog on many of the issues listed above.