Space Law (12/9/25)

Join the CBA International and Foreign Law Committee for an exciting program on Space Law: Compelling Issues of Space as a Commercial and Geopolitical Arena. Speaker will be Michelle L.D. Hanlon, Executive Director of the Center for Air and Space Law. 

Michelle L.D. Hanlon has been dubbed the Godmother of Space Law. She is Executive Director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi and co-founder of For All Moonkind, the only organization in the world devoted to protecting human heritage in outer space. Under her leadership, For All Moonkind became a Permanent Observer to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Michelle is also the Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal of Space Law and the Journal of Drone Law and Policy.  Her work bridges governance, commerce, heritage and ethics, examining how law can shape humanity’s expansion into space and prevent conflict in an already contested domain. She has testified before the United Nations and the U.S. Congress and advised governments and international organizations on the drafting of space legislation and regulations. Her voice is regularly sought by international media. Michelle received her B.A. in Political Science from Yale College and her J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. She earned her LLM in Air and Space Law from McGill University where the focus of her research was commercial space and the intersection of commerce and public law.

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