Geert Van Calster

• Head of Department - European and International Law
• Director  at Leuven Law's Centre for Advanced Legal Studies
• Director of Studies - Master of Energy and Environmental Law, Master of Laws
• Senior Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KULeuven

Contact Data

• Institute of Environmental and Energy Law
  KU Leuven
  Faculty of Law
  Tiensestraat 41
  B-3000 Leuven
• Telephone +32 16 32 51 32
• Fax +32 16 32 54 82 
• E-mail: gavc@law.kuleuven.be

Short Bio

An alumnus of the College of Europe, Bruges (promotion Stefan Zweig), Prof Van Calster is the Head of KU Leuven Law's Department of European and International Law.

Geert is director of Leuven Law's Centre for Advanced Legal Studies, director of studies for the Master programme on Energy and Environmental law, and of the Master of Laws program. He is also a senior fellow at Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies.

A tenured chair of the Research Fund, K.U.Leuven, Geert is also a visiting professor at Monash University (Melbourne) and at the China-EU School of Law in Beijing, and a visiting lecturer at King's College, London. He was previously i.a. a visiting lecturer at Oxford University (Sept 2006 – Sept 2008) and a visiting professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He was called to the Bar in 1999 after having worked as of counsel to a City law firm since 1995, and practices with DLA Piper.

Finally Geert is on the board of Academische Stichting Leuven, an academic charity.

See www.gavc.be

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