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LL.M. Students visit NASA General Counsel's Office
The College of Law held its 4th Annual UNL Law College Washington, D.C. Space and Cyber Law Conference Oct. 12-13 at the Willard Hotel. While in D.C., the LL.M. students visited NASA General Counsel's Office and interacted with five NASA lawyers on a variety of space law topics.
The conference itself drew the largest audience ever for the space law session with over 65 attendees, and an audience that included foreign embassy science counselors, former White House officials, and a leading on-line space reporter. Also attending were several of LLM alumni, including Amber Charlesworth, Presidential Management Fellow at State Dept., and Sarah Morris, Policy Analyst for the Open Internet Initiative at the New America Foundation.
The space law panel discussion involved the top lawyers for SpaceX (Tim Hughes), Virigin Galactic (Marc Holzapfel), EADS North America (Dennis Burnett), FAA - Commercial Space (Laura Montgomery), and NASA –Commercial (Courtney Graham). The cyber law session featured a discussion among the top lawyer for US Cyber Command (Col. Gary Brown), one of the top private sector cyber lawyers (former Asst. US Attorney for SDNY Joe Demarco), and one of the top former CIA/White House lawyers (Georgetown Professor Catherine Lotrionte). Professor Matthew Schaefer moderated the discussions at both sessions.
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von der Dunk invited to Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency Conference
Professor Frans von der Dunk has been invited to Tokyo to deliver keynote addresses at workshops hosted by Tokyo University and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Japanese equivalent of NASA. The workshops will be held February 6 through 9, 2012. von der Dunk's keynote speeches will address governance issues in outer space and development of a national Japanese space law.
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Alumni Achievment
Charlesworth is Presidential Management Fellow
Amber Charlesworth was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow, a prestigious
leadership development program, upon her graduation from the LL.M. program in 2011. As
a result of that selection, Amber works for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans
and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, the Office of Space and Advanced
Technology (OES/SAT.) OES/SAT has primary responsibility for U.S. representation to the United Nations
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), where a wide range of
space policy issues are addressed. Most recently, UNCOPUOS has been a vital forum for
U.S. efforts to develop new international guidelines on emerging issues such as minimizing
the generation of orbital debris and ensuring safe space operations and sustainable access to
space. Amber works on space policy issues for OES/SAT as a result of that office's
connection to UNCOPUOS.
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