Michelle L.D. Hanlon is the Executive Director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi. She 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 and its sister publication, the Journal of Drone Law and Policy. Michelle is Co-Founder, President and CEO 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.
In this capacity, she was instrumental in the development of the One Small Step Act in the United States. 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 and recently launched its Institute on Space Law and Ethics. Michelle is also a founding partner of ABH Space Law and an Advisor at the Beyond Earth Institute and The Hague Institute for Global Justice Off-World Project. Michelle received her B.A. in Political Science from Yale College and her J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. She earned her LLM in Air and Space Law from McGill University.
