The University of Mississippi School of Law will offer space law through the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, the only aerospace law curriculum in the nation since 2002.
During the upcoming academic year, the University of Nebraska's Space and Telecommunications program will begin, thereby creating the second space law program in the U.S. Internationally, one program exists in each of Holland, Germany, Canada and Lapland.
Stephen Gorove, a space law professor, organized the conference - the nation's first on space law - "Man's Landing on the Moon: Legal Implications and Perspectives," in Ventress Hall.
Gorove also founded the Journal of Space Law, the world's oldest publication dedicated to space law. The publication is considered by Joanne Gabrynowicz, chief editor of the journal, to be the "crown jewel of the program."