CMER Cooperation
The CMER cooperates with other research groups within the Faculty of Law and Criminology, within Ghent University, and with other research groups in Belgium and abroad, and it maintains close relationships with environmental and energy law colleagues from other universities.
Within the Faculty there is a tight cooperation with the Maritime Institute and the Human Rights Centre. The CMER is a partner within the Human Rights Research Network.
Outside the Faculty, but within Ghent University, the CMER has a cooperation with or is partner of the following research groups: Energhentic and Building Physics. Its members cooperate regularly with the Centre for Environmental Science and Technology, the Centre for Sustainable Development and BLUEGent.
CMER members participate in energy related research groups or partnerships: Bluebridge, Powerlink, PhairywinD LECSEA and UNITED.
The CMER is a partner of the UGhent-KULeuven Environmental Lawforce and is member of the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Omgevingsrecht (VVOR) and the Overlegplatform voor Energiedeskundigen (OVED).
International Cooperation
The cooperation with research groups outside Belgium is structural with partners with whom the CMER has an official cooperation agreement with, such as the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law, the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL) of Wuhan University (PR China), and with the partners of the Enlight Consortium (https://www.ugent.be/en/ghentuniv/principles/internationalisation/enlight.htm).
The CMER also cooperates with the European Federation of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE) and has membership in and/or cooperates with the Environmental Law Commission of the IUCN, the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Environmental Law Network International (Elni), the European Environmental Law Forum (EELF), the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), and the International Nuclear Law Association (INLA).
The CMER has organised international conferences, including the IUCN AEL conference in 2010; a conference on the Habitats Directive in Antwerp in 2012; a conference on the Habitats Directive in Brussels in 2022; and the EELF conference in Ghent in 2025.
Literature impact and Editorship
For decades the CMER has held the editorship of (Tijdschrift voor Milieurecht) and is still holding (by Prof. Tom De Waele) the editorship of the Tijdschrift voor Ruimtelijke Ordening en Stedenbouw and STORM, and members of the CMER often review contributions for international and national legal journals.