Nicolas de Sadeleer

CURRICULUM VITAE

Professor Nicolas de Sadeleer

Contact: desadeleer.nicolas@gmail.com

Website: www.tradevenvironment.eu

SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE

Practical and theoretical knowledge of international law (trade law, environmental law, investment law); EU law (internal market, environment, health, consumer protection, legal institutions, constitutional issues), comparative law and policy, Belgian public and environmental law; educational programs (lectures, conferences, seminars); educational training (PhD students, LLM students, civil servants, judges, legal practitioners); editorial work; international consultancy work; development aid (in different West African and North African countries); political negotiation skills. Guest professor in African, Australian, Asian, Latin American and North American Universities (working languages English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian).

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Since October 2006: Full Professor of Law, University Saint Louis, Belgium (EU law, Comparative Law; Environmental Law; Health Law) and part-time Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

• 2019-2022: EU Jean Monnet Chair on a Right to a Clean Environment

• 2017: Distinguished International Guest Professor, University of Canberra

• 2015-16: Guest Professor of Law at Ecole des Mines, Paris (prestigious engineering university in France)

• 2008-2014: Guest Professor of Law at the University Paris II-Panthéon-Assas (France), Fribourg University (Switzerland), Wuhan University (China), University of Canberra (Australia), and A Coruna University (Spain)

• 2011-2014: EU Jean Monnet Chair on Trade and Environment (teaching and research project financed by the European Union)

• January-September 2006: Professor at Law faculties of University of Bordeaux IV and Nantes University, France. Part-time Professor at University Saint Louis.

• 2003-2005: Professor of Law and Marie Curie Chair holder at the University of Oslo (European Union sponsored research programme on environment and health policy).

• 1999-2003: Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University Saint Louis; and at the European Institute of the Catholic University of Louvain.

• 1998-2003: Visiting Professor of Law at the Sorbonne, University Paris XII (now Paris Sud), University of Lille-Charles de Gaulle (France), and at Catholic University of Peru. Holder of the Glaverbel Chair in European Studies on “The differences between the USA and the European Community with regard to environmental health policy”.

• 2002-2006: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Free University Brussels.

LEGAL PRACTICE

• 2003-2022: Consultant for different law and consultancy undertakings  (international and EU law)

• 1990-2003: Director of the Environmental Law Center at the University of Saint Louis. Advising different law firms and environmental departments in Belgium, France and Luxemburg. Considerable experience with respect to implementation of EU directives in these countries.

• 1988-1990: Barrister at the Brussels’ Bar (specializing in Belgian administrative and criminal law)

• 1988: Barrister before the Military Court of Arnsberg-Neihem (specializing in Belgian military law)

• 1988: Legal Officer at the Belgian Royal Institute of Natural Sciences (specializing in nature conservation law)

• 1987-1988: Trainee and Consultant for the European Commission, DG Environment.

CHAIRS

2017-2022      Jean Monnet Chair - USL

2002-2003      Chaire Glaverbel d’études européennes - UCL  

2004-2006      Marie Curie Chair - UiO

2010-2014      Jean Monnet Chair - USL

2017-2018      Distinguished Visiting International Professor  - UC

2019-2022      Jean Monnet Chair - USL

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1998         Ph.D. in Law, completed with the highest honours, University of Saint Louis (Belgium)

1987         Master of Laws (LLM), Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

[2020] Environmental Principles: from Political Slogans to Legal Rules, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2^nd ed. [paperback edition, 2005] 

[2014] EU Environmental Law and the Internal Market, Oxford, Oxford University Press

[2007] Implementing Precaution. Approaches from Nordic Countries, the EU and the US, London, Earthscan

[2005] Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Role of NGOs; Empirical Findings and Legal Appraisal, Groeningen, Europa Law Publishing, 228 p., with G. Roller & M. Dross

In addition, 420 articles in law journals and chapters in edited books.