Teaching

Selected Invited Presentations

• Invited panelist, Space and Cyber Threats, CYDEF 2024 Japan, December 2024
• Invited speaker, Critical Infrastructure Risk Management : A Shared Responsibility, Department of Home Affairs Cyber and Infrastructure Security Group, (virtual) 8 November 2024
• Invited panelist speaker, How to Ensure Continued Success Through Complimentarity and Co-operation, UN Institute for Disarmament Research, New York, 28 October 2024
• Invited speaker, Think Big: What if Australia Succeeds?, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 25 July 2024
• Invited keynote speaker, “Space Security Cooperation in Indo-Pacific”, Taiwan Space Agency, 27 June 2024
• Keynote speaker, “Space to the Rescue: Australia’s National Dependencies on Space“, Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 March 2024
• Invited expert, “Cis-lunar Security”, Outer Space Institute, Salt Spring Island, Canada, 29 Feb-3 March, 2024
• Invited panelist, “Fostering bipartisanship in advancing space capabilities: An essential driver for progress” Australian Defence Magazine Space Summit, Canberra, 27 November 2023   
• Invited expert, “U.S.-Japan Space Forum”, Washington D.C., 20-22 November, 2023 
• Keynote presentation, “Governing space from an international and Australian perspective”, UNSW National Space Traffic Management Conference, Sydney, 20 November (remote presentation) 2023
• Delegate, UN Space4Women Expert Meeting, Montreal, 30 October – 3 November 2023
• Invited panelist, “Outer Space Treaty to now: how has the space domain evolved?“, Outer Space Security Conference, UN Institute for Disarmament Research, (remote presentation) 13 October 2023
• Invited expert, Global consultation on feminist approaches to space security, Project Ploughshares (online), 13 July 2023
• Invited panelist, “Space Domain Awareness”, Australian Space Summit, Sydney, 17 May 2023
• Invited panelist, “What Threatens Space Security? Space Systems and Threat Vectors”, UN Institute for Disarmament Research, (webinar) 27 February 2023
• Invited panelist, “Should the Moon have legal rights?”, Australian Earth Laws Alliance webinar, 12 April, 2023   
• Keynote speaker, “Star crossed: Where commercialisation and the laws of armed conflict meet in outer space”, Australian Society for Technology and the Law, Canberra, 26 October 2022   
• Civil society observer and participant, UN Open Ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats through Norms, Rules and Principles, Geneva, 12 – 16 September, 2022
• Invited speaker, “Why we need a gender lens on space security”, diplomatic side event, sponsored by Australia, the Philippines and the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, UN Open Ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats through Norms, Rules and Principles, Geneva, 14 September 2022
• Invited expert, “The application of international humanitarian law and the law of neutrality to space activities”, UN Open Ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats through Norms, Rules and Principles, Geneva, (remote presentation) 11 May, 2022
•  Invited panelist, “Crowded Outer Space: Challenges of Megaconstellations in Space”, Observer Research Foundation (webinar), 20 October 2021
• 2021   Invited panelist, Outer Space Treaty to now: how has the space domain changed?, Outer Space   Invited keynote: “International Relations of Space”, ANU Society of United Nations and ANU Astronomy Society, Canberra, 30 April 2021
• Invited expert speaker, Australia-Japan Track 1.5 Dialogue, Responsible Behaviours in Space, (Japan, UK, Australia), Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra, 12 April 2021   
• Invited expert panellist, “Space Mining”, Environmental Peacebuilding.org, 1 April 2021
• Convenor and panelist, “Artemis and the Moon: An International Law Conundrum“, ANU Centre for Public and International Law, 23 March 2021   
• Invited panelist, “Private Space”, Halifax International Security Forum, 19 November 2021
• Invited speaker, UNIDIR Space Security Conference, 27 September 2021
• Invited speaker, “Artemis Accords”, high level international panel, Space Court Foundation, 22 October 2020
• Chair of World Space Week ANU panel on Space Situational Awareness, 15 October 2020
• A New Framework for Proactive Space Deterrence, UNIDIR event for UN First and Fourth Committee Delegates, “Navigating Space: charting a Course for a Sustainable Space Environment”, New York, 28 October 2019
• New Entrants in the Space Sector, Conference on the Future of Space Governance, Dean Rusk International Law Center, Georgia U.S.A. (remote presentation) 28 October 2019
• The Risk of Legitimizing Space Warfare, Keynote Speaker, Space, War and Ethics Conference, International Society for Military Ethics, Colorado Springs, 29 June 2019
• Proactive Space Deterrence, Prague Security Studies Institute 5th Space Security Conference, Prague, panelist, 11 June 2019  (video of panel available here)
• Space Traffic Management, Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, UNSW Canberra, panelist, 30 April 2019, (audio recording available here)
• Military Space Operations and International Space Law, Women With Peace Fellowship for the Halifax International Security Forum, co-presenter with Lt. Cdr Heather Fogo, Canadian Judge Advocate General’s Office, Ottawa, 14 November 2018
• Military Space Operations Roundtable, International Law Association’s International Law Weekend, Fordham Law School, panelist, 19 October 2018
• Warfighting and Law in Outer Space, Penn Law Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law keynote event, moderator, 5 April 2018 (video of keynote event available here) 
• The Application of International Humanitarian Law to Outer Space, Harvard International Law Journal Symposium “Frontiers of International Law’, panelist, 31 March 2018
• “What’s Wrong with the Colonization of Outer Space? A Feminist Analysis of Space Law”, International Law Grrls 10th Anniversary Conference, Dean Rusk International Law Center, Athens USA, 2017
• The Challenges of International Criminal Law as Dispute Resolution, Silk Road Institute of Comparative Law, Xi’an, China, 2016
• 21st Century Governance of Outer Space, Canadian Space Summit, 2015
• Avoiding Black Holes: International Humanitarian Law Applied To Conflicts In Outer Space, International Institute of Space Law Colloquium, Israel, 2015
• International Law and Military Activities in Space, Secure World Foundation, Washington D.C., 2015 https://swfound.org/events/2015/international-law-and-military-activities-in-space