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Jun 16, 2008, 10:30AM

Field of Space Law Growing In The Deep South

The University of Mississippi is currently the only school in the United States that offers a program of study in space law, although Nebraska is set to create a program later this year. With the field growing in popularity, the "space lawyer" could very well be the coolest job of 2008.

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The University of Mississippi School of Law will offer space law through the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, the only aerospace law curriculum in the nation since 2002.

During the upcoming academic year, the University of Nebraska's Space and Telecommunications program will begin, thereby creating the second space law program in the U.S. Internationally, one program exists in each of Holland, Germany, Canada and Lapland.

Stephen Gorove, a space law professor, organized the conference - the nation's first on space law - "Man's Landing on the Moon: Legal Implications and Perspectives," in Ventress Hall.

Gorove also founded the Journal of Space Law, the world's oldest publication dedicated to space law. The publication is considered by Joanne Gabrynowicz, chief editor of the journal, to be the "crown jewel of the program."

 

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