This booklet contains the inaugural lecture given by the author on accepting the Chair of Professor of International Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 4 December 2008.

Target group

Academics

Author's information

René Lefeber has studied at Leiden University and received his doctorate in law in 1999 for his thesis titled Transboundary Environmental Interference and the Origin of State Liability at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2000, René Lefeber works as legal counsel at the International Law Division of the Directorate of Legal Affairs of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In May 2008 he was appointed Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Amsterdam.
René Lefeber advises the Netherlands Government on international law, including international environmental law, and represents The Netherlands in intergovernmental negotiations. From 1994 until 2000, he worked as legal officer for the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Before he joined these Ministries, he worked as a lecturer in the field of Law of International organisations at Leiden University and in the field of International Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).