Professional Certificate
Get unique legal insight into off-Earth enterprise
Human activity in space-commercial, strategic and exploratory-is on the cusp of exponential growth. Consequently, complex related legal issues are emerging and being addressed at an incredible rate.
Our new Professional Certificate in Space Law-Australia's first dedicated postgraduate program in the field-provides priceless, up-to-the-minute legal insight for anyone conducting, planning or advising on enterprise in 'the final frontier.'
Completed over six months part-time, or on a more flexible schedule, the program has been co-developed by the Adelaide Law School's world-renowned space law researchers. Among them are the joint lead authors of The Woomera Manual, the world's first definitive text on international law as it applies to military conflict in space.
The program will give you the opportunity to gain advanced knowledge of domestic and international law as it applies to:
You'll also have the chance to pursue applied research in an area of space law of particular interest to you.
You will emerge with the capability and confidence to guide and advise on a wide range of off-Earth activity, in the professional setting of your choosing-from government departments, research centres and the military, to legal practices, consultancies and non-government organisations.
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Space law is an emerging area for exploration, science, innovation and business. The Professional Certificate in Space Law prepares students for the regulatory and policy challenges in that future. Students will learn how to apply principles of space law to solve legal problems and critique the law from ethical and practical perspectives.
The Professional Certificate in Space Law is a non-AQF program. This program has a standard full-time duration of 0.25 years however can only be taken part-time for a duration of 0.5 years.