Geert Van Calster

Geert Van Calster (born 1970), LL.M., PhD, is a Belgian lawyer and legal scholar, focusing on international trade law, EC environmental law and EC economic law, and international environmental law. He is Professor of Law at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, head of its department of European and International Law, director of the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies at KU Leuven and a senior fellow at KU Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies. He is also a visiting professor at Monash University (Melbourne) 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 (promotion Stefan Zweig 1993-1994) and a PhD from Leuven in 1999. He was Chevening Scholar at St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford 1997-1998.