I am a senior consultant and lecturer, specialising in space law and space policy at the Australian National University. I am Deputy Director of the ANU Institute for Space, with a focus on the Mission Specialists, and Chair of the Australian Centre for Space Governance. I have over 15 years’ professional experience in academia and strategic direction of research centres and NGOs. I have been a Senior Lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, where I taught and researched comparative criminal law and international criminal law; Executive Director of the McGill Institute for Air and Space Law; Executive Director of Women in International Security-Canada; Acting Executive Director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law; and Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law. I have consulted to the Australian, Canadian and US departments of defence and to DFAT on space law and space security, and published widely on these issues.
Experience
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–presentSenior lecturer, Australian National University
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2015–2018Executive Director, Women in International Security - Canada
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2018–2018Acting Executive Director, Centre for Ethics and the Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania
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2015–2017Executive Director, Centre for research in Air and Space Law, McGill University
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2008–2014Senior lecturer, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Education
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2014Universiteit van Amsterdam, PhD International Law
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2005Universiteit van Amsterdam, LLM (International and European Law)
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2004Universiteit van Amsterdam, Meester in der rechten (civil law undergraduate degree)
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2002UNSW, Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy)
Professional Memberships
- International Institute of Space Law
- Women in Aviation/Aerospace Australia
- International Society of Military Law and Ethics
- International Law Association
- Australia New Zealand Society of International Law
- Space Industry Association of Australia
- Canberra
- Website
- @CassandraSteer
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
