First Space Lawyer Graduates

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5-9-2008 10:22 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c90048bc-2451-4a73-a374-a17667d0daae/17C5808A-E917-4C2E-9541-584DA0E461D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/news/080508-first-space-lawyer.html" href="http://www.space.com/news/080508-first-space-lawyer.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/080508-first-space-lawyer.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>A student
at the </SPAN><SPAN>University</SPAN><SPAN> of </SPAN><SPAN>Mississippi</SPAN><SPAN> will leap into the final frontier of the legal system
Saturday when he receives the first-ever space law certificate in the </SPAN><SPAN>United States</SPAN><SPAN>.</SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Michael
Dodge of </SPAN><SPAN>Long Beach</SPAN><SPAN>, </SPAN><SPAN>Calif.</SPAN><SPAN>, earned the special distinction along with his law degree
through the </SPAN><SPAN>National</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN>Center</SPAN><SPAN> for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law at the university's
law school.</SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>"The
professors and personnel here are the highest quality that can be found anywhere
in the world, and I have learned from them the necessary skills I will need to
effectively practice space law," Dodge said in a statement. "Ole Miss is,
simply put, the space law expert, and anyone wishing practice in this field
should get their legal education here."</SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Any future
space lawyer might have to deal with issues ranging from the fallout over <A href="http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080219-satellite" linkindex="13" set="yes">satellite
shoot-downs</A> to legal disputes between astronauts onboard the <A href="http://www.space.com/071204-columbus-spacelaw.html" linkindex="14" set="yes">International Space
Station</A>. The expanding privatization of the space sector may also pose new
legal challenges</SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/17C5808A-E917-4C2E-9541-584DA0E461D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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"Once I came to the law school, I read that there was an attorney here that specialized in space law," Dodge said. "After that, I became curious as to why space needed regulation, and how legal regimes could be constructed to govern such an expanse."

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