Exploring Extraterrestrial Heritage and Legal Challenges

OA1173 - More people have been to space than practice space law, and Professor Michelle Hanlon is one of its most important modern pioneers. Professor Hanlon joins to talk Star Trek captains, preserving historic sites on the Moon, and why she believes the mass privatization of space is--at least if properly regulated--the only way forward.

• Prof. Michelle Hanlon’s University of Mississippi faculty biography

• “Why Are We All So Obsessed with the Moon?”, Michelle Hanlon, New York Times  (12/7/2024)

• The Artemis Accords (signed 10/30/2020)

• “The Wild Wild West of Space Law,” Michael O’Shea, The Walrus (8/13/2020)

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