Sunday, May 11, 2008

First Space Lawyer

Michael Dodge graduated from the University of Mississippi Law School yesterday. That wouldn't especially be news usually as thousands of new lawyers are loosed on the American public each spring, but Mr. Dodge pursued an interesting specialty-- space law.

The Ole Miss law school is the only one in North America to offer that course of study, and Dodge is the first graduate to have won that certifiicate.

In a world reliant on satellites for everything from remote sensing of natural resources to weather prediction to communications to intelligence gathering to the execution of military strategies, not to mention a world on the verge of expanding into space in a big way, with citizens of various nations interacting beyond Earth in both private efforts and government programs, Mr. Dodge might be a busy fellow.

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