Geert Van Calster (born 1970) is a

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lawyer and legal scholar, focusing on

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(private international law),

international trade law International trade law includes the appropriate rules and customs for handling trade between countries. However, it is also used in legal writings as trade between private sectors. This branch of law is now an independent field of study as mo ...

, EU and

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, and EU economic law. He is full professor of Law at

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, was the head of its department of European and International Law for 11 years between 2009 and 2020, and is a senior fellow at KU Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies. He is a former director of the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies at KU Leuven and former program director for the Master of Energy and Environmental Law (2002-2012). He is also a visiting professor at

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(Melbourne), the China-EU School of Law in

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, and at

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. He is adjunct professor at American University and a former visiting lecturer at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Between 1994 and 2015, he was affiliated as of counsel (practising) with international law firms, respectively SJ Berwin; Andersen Legal; Dibb, Lupton, Alsop; and DLA Piper. He now runs his own, independent legal practice. 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 The College of Europe (french: Collège d'Europe) is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading ...

(promotion

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1993-1994) and a PhD from Leuven in 1999. He was

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at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford 1997-1998. Van Calster keeps a blog on many of the issues listed above.

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