Events Calendar

Please join us for a lunchtime panel where space lawyers with commercial, government, and international experience will provide insights, career advice, and answer questions. If you’re interested in international, corporate, intellectual property, administrative, arms control, insurance, or any other kind of law with space applications, please come and enjoy some free food! Sponsored by the Texas International Law Journal, the Journal of Law & Technology at Texas, and the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

Stick around after the panel for an information session about the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, the premier space and international law moot court.

Panelists

Michael “Mick” Schlabs: Mr. Schlabs retired as a senior attorney in the International Law Practice Group, Office of the General Counsel, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. He was responsible for international science cooperation, export control, counterintelligence and other security-related issues, along with general international and space law matters. He has also been the lead international attorney for the International Space Station, Space Shuttle, human space flight, and aeronautics research. Mick came to NASA after serving 25 years as an Air Force judge advocate. His military career included, among others, assignments as Associate Professor of Law at the U.S. Air Force Academy and legal advisor to various U.S. Air Force units at bases in the United Kingdom, the Philippines and Germany. Prior to moving to NASA, he was Chief of the International and Operations Law Division, HQ U.S. Air Force, at the Pentagon. Rebecca Bresnik: Ms. Bresnik is the Associate Chief Counsel for International Matters and the lead attorney for the International Space Station at NASA. In this role her duties include advising on the multimillion-dollar negotiations and purchases of crew transportation, rescue and related launch services for NASA astronauts to the ISS; advising on international issues and contracting between the ISS Partners--the European Space Agency, Japanese Space Agency, Russian Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency; and agreements in furtherance of NASA exploration beyond low earth orbit. She is also Export Control Counsel for JSC.

Nathan Johnson: Mr. Johnson is an attorney licensed in Washington, DC, and publishes the blog and podcast AstroEsq. He worked at the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation during SpaceX’s first berth with the International Space Station, and for the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space, and Technology during deliberation on human spaceflight regulation. He has published articles on orbital debris removal, on-orbit liability, and outer space property rights. He is also the Regional Organizer for the Manfred Lachs North America Space Law Moot Court Competition.

Alicia Woodley: Ms. Woodley has 17 years of experience spanning the fields of business law, corporate management, and the sciences, and is the Chief Counsel and Director of International Corporate Operations at Axiom Space. Prior to joining Axiom, Ms. Woodley directed special projects as General Counsel and Chief Strategic Officer for the US Medical Innovations family of companies specializing in research, product development, manufacturing, sales, and distribution of plasma-energy surgical devices.