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Professor de Sadeleer visits the IUCN Academy in Ottawa |
 On Tuesday July 3, Professor Nicolas de Sadeleer was welcomed to the Academy Secretariat at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, and gave a seminar on “Environmental Principles”, which is the subject of his book of the same name (Oxford University Press 2005). He also met with Co-Director of the Academy, Professor Ben Boer and researchers working on a Protected Areas project related to the joint Protected Areas Taskforce Law and Policy Taskforce established by the Commission on Environmental Law and World Commission on Protected Areas.
Professor de Sadeleer, a civil law specialist in the area of environmental law, is based at Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels. Until recently he held the EU Marie Curie Chair on Risk and Precaution at Oslo University. His latest book is Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Approaches from the Nordic Countries, EU and USA (Earthscan 2007). He was in Canada to teach at the annual summer school in environmental law at the Université de Montreal. |