Dr Damian Bielicki

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Damian Bielicki
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About

Damian joined the Department of Law as a lecturer in January 2018, having previously taught at Birkbeck, University of London, University of Greenwich and at Regent's University London. 

He is the Director of the Law & Technology Research Group at Kingston University. His research outputs are on space law and cyber law. He completed the International Space University's Space Studies Program at NASA Ames Research Center in California. He also worked on different projects at the European Space Agency. He was one of the founders and leads of the Space Exploration Project Group at the Space Generation Advisory Council in support of the Untied Nations Programme on Space Applications. He is also the founder of the Space Law Centre, the world's largest online database of space law and policy-related issues. 

Academic responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Law

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Member of the International Institute of Space Law
  • Member of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) in Paris, France
  • Member of the International Law Association (ILA) British Branch.
  • Previously Alternate Member on the ILA International Committee on Space Law

Teaching and learning

Damian is the module leader for Law of Technology and Innovation and for Family Law. These are 30-credit modules offered at undergraduate (LLB) and postgraduate (LLM) levels.

He was previously the module leader for International Law Dissertation, Public International Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. 

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

  • Bielicki D., Private sub-orbital spaceflight: Re-examining the boundary problem and the definition of an astronaut (to be published shortly).
  • Bielicki D. (ed), Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Industry (Routledge 2022)
  • Bielicki, D.M., ‘Evidence from space in cases of the International Courts and Tribunals'. In: A. Ferreira-Snyman, Y.A. Failat (eds), Outer Space Law: Legal Policy and Practice (Surrey: Globe Law & Business 2022)
  • Bielicki D., The British Space Programme – The national legal, regulatory and policy framework (Studia Iuridica 2021)
  • Bielicki D., ‘Legal Aspects of Satellite Constellations' [2020]  45 Air & Space Law Journal 3
  • Bielicki D.M., Prawne aspekty megakonstelacji satelitarnych (paper in Polish language published by the Government of Poland (Senate of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw 2019). 
  • Bielicki D.M., ‘United Kingdom's Approach to Regulating Commercial Spaceflight Safety', Proceedings of the 69th International Astronautical Congress, October 2018, IADC-18.D6.1, Bremen, Germany.
  • Pomeroy, C., Calzada, A., Bielicki, D., ‘Fund me to the Moon – Crowdfunding and the New Space economy', Space Policy Journal, June 2018.
  • Bielicki, D.M., ‘Evidence from space in cases of the International Courts and Tribunals'. In: A. Ferreira-Snyman, Y.A. Failat (eds), Outer Space Law: Legal Policy and Practice (Surrey: Globe Law & Business 2017).
  • Ghassabian, G.H., Calzada-Diaz, A., Ghassabian, H., Hettrich, S., De Quattro, N., Antonello, A., Bielicki, D.M., ‘Alcides: A novel lunar mission concept study for the demonstration of enabling technologies in deep-space exploration and human-robots interaction' [2018] Acta Astronautica/Elsevier 151 (2018) 270-183.
  • Bielicki, D.M., Hettrich, S., Calzada-Diaz, A., Ghassabian, H., Goodwin, C., Kolodziejczyk, A., Jankowska, M., Poonampreet, J., Ghosh, A., Karmakar, S., 2016. Analog Simulation of a Mission to Mars – A Case Study in Poland, Proceedings of the 67th International Astronautical Congress. Sept. 2016, Guadalajara, Mexico.

Research student supervision