Res Communis

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty

The University of Nebraska has announced two space law events. The first is:

Third Annual Space Law Seminar
Topic: “Space Security Issues in the Transatlantic Arena”
November 2, 2009
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Omaha Hilton
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The announcement is available and registration is by email.

The second event is the Second Annual Space and Telecom Law Conference: Space and Telecommunications Law in the Transatlantic Arena: Comparison, Cooperation, and Competition” on November 19-20, 2009 at the Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C.:

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
SECOND ANNUAL WASHINGTON, D.C. SPACE AND TELECOM LAW
CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 19-20, 2009
WASHINGTON COURT HOTEL
525 New Jersey Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001

With the Support of the American Branch of the International Law Association

“Space, Telecommunications, & Cyber Law in the Transatlantic Arena: Comparison, Competition, & Cooperation”

For full agenda and registration, go to http://spaceandtelecomlaw.unl.edu
NOVEMBER 19: Telecommunications/Cyber Law Day

Keynote Opening Address
Alec Ross U.S. State Department, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the office of Secretary Clinton Keynote Conversation Between Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy Chief Technology Office for Policy, White House Tim Wu, Professor, Columbia Law School

Lunch Keynote Address
David Vladeck Director, Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

Panels on

* Broadband Competition & Trade Policy in Europe and the U.S.
* Communications as a Civil Right
* Cyberwarfare

Other Featured Speakers Include:

Daniel J. Weitzner, NTIA, Jan Malinowski, Council of Europe, Bertrand Vandeputte, Head of Broadband Unit at ARCEP, France, Lauri Allman, former Estonian Undersecretary of Defense, Derek Jinks, U.S. Naval War College, Ben Scott, Free Press, Jeremie Zimmermann, La Quadrature Du Net, Debroah Lathen, British Telecom, Erzsebet Fitori, European Competitive Telecommunications Association, Maeve Dion, George Mason, Maj. Vicki A. Belleau, USAF, 24th Air Force, among others
NOVEMBER 20: Space Law Day

Includes Morning Keynote Address by Alan Ladwig, Senior Advisor to the Administrator, NASA
Space Tourism Panel including Marc Holtzapfel (Legal Counsel, Virgin Galactic), Laura Montgomery (Senior Attorney FAA), Frans von der Dunk (Professor of Law, University of Nebraska) and others International Space Station Panel including Jay Steptoe (Associate GC for
International, NASA), Dick Obermann (Director, House Subcommittee on Space-invited)
and others

Military-Civil-Commercial Cooperation Panel including: Cortney Graham (NASA OGC), June Edwards (formerly NASA/USSTRACOM), Tim Hughes (GC SpaceXinvited), Fred Campbell (President ,Wireless Communications Association); Henry Hertzfeld (Professor, George Washington University Space Policy Institute)

Afternoon Keynote Address by Brian Nilsson (Off the Record), Director of Non-Proliferation, National Security Council (invited) ITAR/Export Control Panel including Tom Moore (Professional Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee –invited), John Ordway (Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe), Franceska Schroeder (Fish & Richardson), Dennis Burnett (VP Trade Policy and Export Controls, EADS North America), and Olivier Colaitis (Director Climate Change, ThalesAleniaSpace).

Register here.