The Nebraska Space, Cyber, and National Security Law Program is thrilled to be returning to Washington D.C. for our 17th Annual Fall Conference. Our faculty, leadership, and students look forward to working in D.C. and visiting alumni and colleagues across the space law community. The conference will be held on Friday, September 27th. This year the conference is again offered to the space law community and students at no cost.
Due to restraints of the venue, the conference is not offered online.
Registration is now closed.
Date:
September 27, 2024
8 AM - 12:30 PM
Conference Location:
The Army & Navy Club
901 17th St. NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tentative Schedule:
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome from Program Director and Professor Jack Beard
9:10 - 9:30 Keynote from Brig. Gen. Michael D. Tomatz, Director of Operations and International Law, The Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Department of the Air Force
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 11:00 The Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations
Moderator: Prof. Jack M. Beard, Director -Space, Cyber, and National Security Law Program, University of Nebraska College of Law
Prof. Dale Stephens, University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Brian Weeden, Systems Director, The Aerospace Corporation
Col. Matthew King, Chief of Space Law and Deputy Director, Headquarters Air Force Operations and International Law Directorate (AF/JAO)
Prof. Christopher J. Borgen, Co-Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, St. John's University School of Law
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:30 Regulating Space in a Shifting Administrative Law Landscape
Moderator: Elsbeth Magilton, Lecturer and Director of Externships, University of Nebraska College of Law
Prof. Frans von der Dunk, University of Nebraska College of Law
Laura Cummings, Associate, Space & Satellite, Greenberg Traurig
Jessica Noble, Associate General Counsel, ispace technologies – U.S. (invited)