Dr Paula Sweeney
AI ETHICS
Moral responsibility for automated decisions, and what it means to delegate a judgement no one afterwards can reconstruct.
10 KM · TEN RESEARCHERS
Team
Lawyers and philosophers lead the enquiry. Computing scientists establish what the technology can and cannot do. The division of labour is deliberate and is stated in the methodology.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr Maria Manoli
SPACE LAW AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE · UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Leads the project from the School of Law at Aberdeen. Previously contributed to the McGill MILAMOS project and to the Global Space Governance study, both concerned with stating what existing law requires of new space activity rather than proposing law afresh.
CO-INVESTIGATORS
Prof. George Kyriakopoulos
EU REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS · ATHENS
European space surveillance proposals and their fit with member-state licensing obligations.
Prof. Upasana Dasgupta
INDIA · IN-SPACe · JINDAL GLOBAL
Authorisation and supervision of private Indian operators under the IN-SPACe regime.
Prof. Julia Selman-Ayetey
GHANA · TECHNOLOGY LAW
Regulation from the position of states whose operators inherit standards written elsewhere.
Dr Wanshu Cong
INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
Who holds orbital data, on what terms it is shared, and what that control confers.
Prof. Lukas Vanhonnaeker
CANADA · SPACE LAW AND INVESTMENT
Investment protection where private specification shapes operator obligations across borders.
TECHNICAL GROUNDING
Dr Stefania Soldini
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
Spacecraft dynamics and autonomous operations.
Dr Wanpeng Li
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
Systems and software behaviour in autonomous decision loops.
Dr Raja Naeem Akram
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Computing science, security and the auditability of automated systems.
Technical colleagues advise on physical and computational limits. They do not determine what the law should require, and the reports state where their input ends.