Professor Barton Beebe is John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at NYU Law, co-director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and a co-director of the Competition, Innovation, and Information Law LLM Program. Professor Beebe will talk about his new writing on technological change and the recurring thinking of death of law. The discussion will focus on Part II of the project on outer space, cyberspace, and technospace.

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.

Dr Haris Durrani, JD, PhD (Princeton) is judicial clerk in the Federal Circuit 2024-25; an incoming Harvard History and Economics post-doc on satellite history. Dr Durrani will present ideas from his recently-completely History doctoral thesis on earth satellite programs in the 1960s. Haris Durrani has also contributed to literature on SciFi concerning space and other worlds. We read his short 2021 article, 'Frank Herbert, the Republican Salafist', about the political thought of the author of Dune (1965).

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.

Professor Weinzierl, is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit.  His research focuses on the optimal design of economic policy, in particular taxation. This year he published a book, Space to Grow:  Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier (with Brendan Rosseau), about the commercialization of space. 

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.

Professor Akhil Rao is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Middlebury College who has recently been the Acting Chief Economist in NASA's Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy. Professor Rao is going to speak about "how government actors could vs do shape behaviors in space."  He will be discussing several space policy questions to illuminate the gap between how governmental actors are influencing behavior in space and how they could do so in his opinion, such as policy questions around space constellations and debris. 

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.

Professor Alejandro Rodiles (ITAM, Mexico) will talk about the idea of ‘charter cities’ as a daring illustration of recent trends in urban development thinking, and the role of cities and local governance in international development.

This is part of the guest speaker sessions for Global Infrastructure and Tech Law Seminar.

Professor Lisa Ruth Rand is a historian of technology, science, and the environment who tends to gravitate toward extreme natures and broken things. Rand will discuss the environmental history of outer space, and in conversation with Professor Alejandro Rodiles (ITAM, Mexico) on planetary thinking.

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.

Expert Esther Brimmer from the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force will present Task Force Report No. 82: Securing Space – A Plan for U.S. Action. She will explore the United States' role in emerging space governance, with a particular focus on Low-Earth Orbit, where thousands of commercial satellites—many operated by American companies—are in operation.

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.

In the brief history of human space exploration, governmental entities have dominated the field for the majority of the time, with private actors primarily participating as individual contractors. The United States stands out as one of the longstanding spacefaring nations, notable for having the largest share of commercial participation and a constant effort to foster private-sector involvement in supplying essential space infrastructure.

Professor Hersch's book, Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle, explores its failure as a technological demonstrator and aims to answer a fundamental question: why did the Space Shuttle fail to make spaceflight cheap, safe, and routine? It also provides a broader perspective on the concept of failure within the context of American technological and cultural history.

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.

This roundtable will explore how international law should adapt to govern the interconnected impacts of oceans and climate change with a focus on justice. With:

Janine Coye-Felson of the permanent mission of belize to the united nations
Angelina Fisher of New York University School of Law
Douglas Guilfoyle of the UNSW
César Rodríguez-Garavito of New York University School of Law

at International Law Weekend 2024.

The event is a preliminary workshop of Planetary Workshop series and an inter-/cross-disciplinary effort to initiate a conversation among scholars whose research grapples with planetary futures from various different perspectives.

In the first roundtable, Temporalities will serve as the overarching theme, and participants will explore human/nature relationship with time, evaluation of future and nature, and finally mortality.

The unifying theme for the second roundtable is Crisis, encompassing topics from extreme weather events, to global and transnational challenges posed by climate change, as well as technologies like geo-engineering that are intended for -- and may become -- crisis.

The third roundtable will focus on Resources and how their exploitation, appropriation, circulation and distribution shape and reshape power -- both past and future, and how humankind’s relationship with the planet is projected in their (in-)materiality and (in-)scarcity.

 The fourth roundtable is about Social where we will explore various actions and actors that are vested with or organized to have the power to move for and against the planet.

This event is a closed-door session, accessible by invitation only.

Contact: Yirong Sun, ys5086@nyu.edu