Protecting Human Heritage in Outer Space with Michelle L.D. Hanlon

Metasolis
Clayming Space
Published in
2 min readAug 2, 2020
Aldrin’s lunar boot print in a photo taken by him on July 21, 1969

In this episode we talk to Michelle L.D. Hanlon, Co-Founder and President of For All Moonkind Inc.

Michelle is Co-Director of the Air and Space Law Program at the University of Mississippi School of Law and its Center for Air and Space Law. She is also a Co-Founder and President of For All Moonkind, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that is the only organization in the world focused on protecting human cultural heritage in outer space. For All Moonkind has been recognized by the United Nations as a Permanent Observer to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Michelle Chairs the International Committee of the National Space Society and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law, the world’s oldest law journal dedicated to the legal problems arising out of human activities in outer space. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Yale College and her J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. Michelle earned her LLM in Air and Space Law from McGill University where the focus of her research was commercial space and the intersection of commerce and public law.

Prior to focusing on space law, Michelle was engaged in a private business law practice. Her legal career commenced with the restructuring of sovereign debt for several South and Latin American countries and evolved into the negotiation and implementation of cross-border technology mergers and acquisitions. Her subsequent solo practice advised entrepreneurs across four continents on all aspects of bringing their innovative ideas to market: from basic corporate formation to financing and buyouts.

If you would like to get in touch with Michelle and/or check out For All Moonkind’s work, the links below will help you get there:

If you’re keen to hear on the go, the episode is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher Radio under Clayming Space.

Enjoy! And please like, share, and subscribe, so we know the type of content you want us to produce.

Support us for listener directed content on Patreon and Anchor.

--

--

Metasolis
Clayming Space

A s.t.e.a.m studio with a focus on building web3 tools for space ecosystems