Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Role of NGOs

Nicolas de Sadeleer is Marie Curie Chair holder at the University of Oslo where he is in charge of an EU sponsored research programme. He is also a Professor of environmental law at the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis and at the Institut d'études européennes de l'Université catholique de Louvain and post doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Law of the Vrijie Universiteit Brussels. His other professional experience includes serving as a Director from 1990 to 2003 of the Environmental Law Center at the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis.

Miriam Dross studied law in Berlin, Germany and Washington D.C., U.S., where she received a Masters Degree in International Legal Studies. Inter alia she worked as a desk officer at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Directorate G II, International Cooperation from 2001 to 2002. Since November 2002 she is staff lawyer at the Environmental Law Division of the Öko-Institut, Darmstadt. Her main fields of expertise are international and European law.

Gerhard Roller is professor of law at Bingen University for applied sciences since 1997 and there Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies and Applied Research since 2003. He has been publishing extensively on environmental law in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. He is the author of 'Komitologie und Demokratieprinzip', published in Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2004).