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Michael Byers

Michael Byers is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law. A former professor of law at Duke University, he now co-directs the Outer Space Institute—a new international network for transdisciplinary space studies.