Nicolas de Sadeleer is professor of law at Saint-Louis University (Brussels), the Academy of Louvain and guest professor at UCL. Being based in Brussels, he plays an active part in debates on EU legal and institutional issues. In addition, he has taught law in French, English and Spanish in universities in Belgium (FUSL, UCL, VUB), Norway (Oslo), France (Paris I, Paris II, Paris XI, Lille Charles de Gaulle, Bordeaux IV, and Nantes), Spain (Bilbao), Peru (Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru), Thailand (AIT) and China (Wuhan, Guangzhou). He was the holder of a EU Marie Curie chair on risk assessment and risk management which was established at the law faculty of the University of Oslo from 2004 to 2005.
In addition, Nicolas de Sadeleer has been advising both international and national authorities on a wide range of environmental issues for more than twenty years. He has also worked with various law and consultancy firms.
Professor Nicolas de Sadeleer has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in EU law under the European Commission, a programme that promotes European knowledge and competence throughout higher education institutions worldwide.
Professor de Sadeleer’s activity at Saint-Louis as Jean Monnet Chair focuses on the analysis of the conflict between environmental law and the single market from a legal perspective. Funds from this position will be used in providing continuing support for existing academic activities and to create and publish new research. They will also support work to prepare conferences and a new summer course in Brussels. The dissemination of this project is based on the use of innovative pedagogical tools.