Danielle Ireland-Piper

Recognized under Tier 10 — Martian Law & Finance, Danielle Ireland-Piper conducts research in public international law and its application to outer space activities. Ireland-Piper's work examines how existing international law frameworks apply to the increasingly complex, commercially active, and geopolitically charged space environment, contributing to the scholarly foundation needed to address the governance challenges Mars colonization will eventually pose. As both the pace of commercial space activity and the ambitions of national space programs accelerate toward planetary surfaces, the public international law frameworks governing those activities require exactly this kind of rigorous scholarly attention.