Professor Geert van Calster

Profile

An alumnus of the College of Europe, Bruges (promotion Stefan Zweig), Geert van Calster is full professor (professor ordinarius) at the University of Leuven, Head of Leuven Law's department of European and international law and senior fellow at Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies. In addition, he is visiting professor and senior fellow at Monash University's Law faculty (Melbourne), visiting professor at the China-EU School of Law in Beijing, visiting professor at King's College, London and adjunct professor at the Brussels Campus of American University.

Geert van Calster is on the indicative list of WTO Panelists, and a board member of Academische Stichting Leuven, an academic charity. He is an independent legal practitioner at the Brussels Bar, having been called to the Bar in 1999 after having worked as of counsel to a City law firm since 1995.

His practice, teaching and research focus is on conflict of laws (private international law), EU and international regulatory law (especially environment), and international and EU economic law. 

Research

Publications

Geert van Calster’s recent publications include:

• Geert VAN CALSTER, European Private International Law – 2^nd, thorougly revised and updated edition, Oxford /London, Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2016, 520p.; first ed. 2013, 340p;
• Geert VAN CALSTER, 欧洲国际私法, Beijing, Law Press China, 2016, 519 p. (Chinese ed. of European PIL);
• Geert VAN CALSTER, Leonie REINS, EU Environmental Law, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2017, 343p;
• Geert VAN CALSTER, Handbook of EU waste law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, January 2015, 404p; and
• VAN CALSTER and D. PREVOST, (eds.), Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, Hardback 2013, 896p.; paperback edition 2014, 880p.