Sebastiaan Levelt

Partner

About Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan Levelt has extensive experience in both litigation and advice in environmental law, supervision and enforcement, public space, government liability, contracts with the government, apartment law and property law (including neighbor law) and architectural law.

He is involved in leading proceedings concerning allocation of scarce permits for Amsterdam’s canal shipping companies, which have twice put an end to Amsterdam’s canal shipping policy. He can safely be called a pioneer in litigating about scarce rights. As such, he frequently advises and litigates on a wide variety of scarce rights.

He started in 1990 as an administrative law attorney at a large law firm in Amsterdam. He assists governments, companies and individuals (and owners associations) in administrative and civil law cases.

Education:

  • LL.M. Italian language and literature, University of Utrecht (1987)
  • LL.M. Dutch law, (specialization International law), University of Utrecht (1988)
  • Postgraduate course, (International environmental law), University of Utrecht (1989)
  • Specialization course in Environmental Law, Grotius Academy (1999)

Additional activities:

  • Member of the Association of Environmental Lawyers;
  • Former member of the Supervisory Board of the Amsterdam District Bar Association and chairman of the Objections Committee of the Amsterdam South district.