Join Matthew, the International Law Society and International Programs to hear about live controversies in international space law and the role the next generation of space lawyers will play in their unfolding. The legal environment of outer space is changing rapidly, and modern society relies on that environment for its basic functionalities, to include communications, natural disaster detection and response, and military operations. Matthew will discuss a variety of interpretive issues of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and practical legal challenges arising from the exponentially increasing commercial presence in outer space. Such controversies include militarization of the space environment, increasing generation of debris in orbit, extraction and use of space resources, and challenges to the broader international legal order in outer space.

Matthew Lively is a 3L here at the University of Chicago Law School and also holds a Master of Arts Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. His space law scholarship has been published in the Manchester Journal of International Economic Law and will soon be published in the Connecticut Journal of International Law and the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. His current projects focus on commercial asteroid mining and the laws of war in outer space.

This event is sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School's International Programs and International Law Society.

Lunch will be provided. Please submit dietary requests eight business days prior to the program to Aican Nguyen at aican@uchicago.edu. Although we will try to accommodate dietary needs, it is not guaranteed.