Justice Preston is the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. Prior to being appointed in November 2005, he was a senior counsel practising primarily in New South Wales in environmental, planning, administrative and property law. He has lectured in post-graduate environmental law for over 30 years. He is the author of Australia’s first book on environmental litigation and 139 articles, book chapters and reviews on environmental law, administrative and criminal law. He holds numerous editorial positions in environmental law publications and has been involved in a number of international environmental consultancies and capacity-building programs, including for judiciaries throughout Asia, Africa and the European Union.
Justice Preston is an Official Member of the Judicial Commission of NSW, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW and Honorary Fellow of the Environment Institute of the Australia and New Zealand. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by Macquarie University in 2018. He is a member of various international environmental law committees and advisory boards, including the interim governing council of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment and Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA). He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University and Southern Cross University.
In 2019 Justice Preston was a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and in 2020 was the Robert S Campbell Jr Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford.
On October 14th 1997 Luc Lavrysen obtained the degree of doctor in law at Ghent University, with a Ph.D. titled “The development of the European, Belgian and Flemish environmental law in a changing institutional context. Research on the development of environmental law from a public law perspective” (English translation). From May 1985 until May 2000 he was Law Clerk at the Belgian Constitutional Court in Brussels. From May 2000 until January 2001 he was State Councilor (Justice in the Supreme Administrative Court).
Currently he is the President of the Belgian Constitutional Court, after being a judge at that Court since 2001. He successively combined these functions with the function of scientific researcher (1985-1989), voluntary assistant (1989-1991), academic counsel (1991-1992) and visiting professor (1992-1998) at Ghent University in the domain of environmental law. From February 1998 till September 2021 he was part-time (20 %) professor in environmental law, charged with courses in environmental law at various faculties. From January 2000 till September 2021 he was director of the Centre for Environmental and Energy Law (CM&ER).
Furthermore he was chief-editor of the “Tijdschrift voor Milieurecht” (one of Belgian’s leading environmental law magazines) till the end of 2019 and chair of the working group Product Policy of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development. He is now an professor emeritus
He is also president of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment and member of the board of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment.
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