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Elliott School's Space Policy Institute a Large Presence at the 58th International Astronautical Congress, Hyderabad, India
Among the almost 2,000 space leaders from government and industry who gathered in Hyderabad, India on September 24-28 for the leading annual international space meeting were all three faculty members of the Elliott School's Space Policy Institute - Director John Logsdon and Professors Ray Williamson and Henry Hertzfeld . They were joined by two recent Elliott School graduates, Audrey Schaffer and Ian Christensen, and three current students, Jason Hay, Emma Hinds, and Angela Puera. All five students concentrated their graduate studies on space policy issues. Logsdon and Williamson presented papers at the Congress. Hertzfeld coached a team of GW Law School students (David Western and Magin Puig) in the Manfred Lachs International Space Law Moot Court Competition to victories over opponents from Europe and Australia. (See separate story.) Hinds represented GW at a meeting of the Space Generation Advisory Council in the days just preceding the Congress. Schaffer and Christensen presented separate papers, and Hay and Puera combined for a joint presentation.
Travel support was provided for Hinds, Hay, Christensen, and Peura by the U.S.-India Science and Technology Foundation, and for Schaffer, Western, and Puig by NASA.
On Saturday, March 31, 2007 the GW team won the North American Competition in the Manfred Lachs International Space Law Moot Court Competition. GWU competed against 8 other schools from the U.S. and Canada; the competition was held in Washington at the Georgetown Univ. Law School. GWU won all of the awards: best oralist (David J. Western), best team brief, and best team.
The GWU team will compete for the world title against the winners of the European competition and the Asia/Pacific competition in Hyderabad, India the first week of October 2007. This competition is sponsored by the International Institute of Space Law and the competition is held in conjunction with the annual International Astronautical Federation Congress.
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