Workshop Directors
Dr. Andrea Harrington (Emeritus Director)
Prof. Andrea Harrington currently serves as the Co-Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and Associate Professor in the McGill Faculty of Law. She is a member of the editorial board for the McGill Annals of Air and Space Law, New Space, and the American Bar Association publication The Air and Space Lawyer as well as providing peer review for numerous other publications including Acta Astronautica and Space Policy. Among other publications, she is the author of the book “Space Insurance and the Law: Maximizing Private Activities in Outer Space,” which won the British Insurance Law Association Book Prize for 2022. Prof. Harrington is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She also teaches in the Space Resources Program for the Colorado School of Mines. Her current research focuses on the use of the principle of due regard in space law and international law.
Prof. Harrington previously served as Dean of Space Education at Air University for the United States Space Force (USSF), where she was responsible for overseeing the West Space Seminar and Schriever Space Scholars, as well as leading Guardian Education development efforts for USSF Space Delta 13. In that role, she led the establishment of ground-breaking USSF academic programs in Washington DC through Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Prior to that role, she served as Chair of the Department of Spacepower and Director of the Schriever Space Scholars concentration at Air Command and Staff College, where she was a Full Professor of Military and Security Studies. Before that Prof. Harrington served as the Associate Director of the Air and Space Law Programs at the University of Mississippi, where she taught International Space Law, US Domestic Space Law, International Private Air Law, US National Aviation Law, and Remote Sensing Law. She has been Associate Chair for the Policy, Economics, and Law Department for the International Space University’s 2018 Space Studies Program, Jr. Project Manager for Secure World Foundation, and researcher on projects for the FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, the International Society for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and the Space Security Index.
Prof. Harrington was an Erin J.C. Arsenault Fellow in Space Governance at the McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law (IASL), where her doctoral research focused on insurance and liability issues for the commercial space industry. Prof. Harrington holds a DCL and LLM from the McGill IASL, as well as a JD with High Honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law, an MSc in European Politics and Governance from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in International Relations and History from Boston University (Magna Cum Laude). Prior to transitioning to air and space law, she was active in the insurance and financial compliance fields.
Dr. Gregory Miller
Dr. Gregory D. Miller is Dean of Space Education for the United States Space Force, Professor of Military and Security Studies at Air University, and Adjunct Professor at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. Previously, he served as Director of the Schriever Space Scholars program and Chair of the Department of Spacepower at the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), in Montgomery, AL.
Dr. Miller received his B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of California, Los Angeles (1996), an M.A. in Security Policy Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University (1998), where his studies focused on Defense Policy, Terrorism, and Space Policy, and an M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) in Political Science from The Ohio State University where his primary field of study was International Security with a minor in Military History.
His research interests cover a broad range of topics in the areas of international relations theory and international security (especially reputation, deterrence, and military alliances), terrorism and political violence, strategy formulation and evaluation, and the application of international relations and political violence concepts to spacepower theory. In 2012, Cornell University Press published his book, The Shadow of the Past: Reputation and Military Alliances before the First World War, as part of its Studies in Security Affairs series. Hist latest book, Sun Tzu in Space: What International Relations, History, and Science Fiction Teach us about our Future, was released by Naval Institute Press in March 2023. His writings appear in more than a dozen journals, including recent space-related articles in Astropolitics, Space Policy, The Space Review, and Air and Space Power Journal.
Dr. Miller has been teaching in professional military education for over ten years after nearly a decade of teaching in civilian institutions. Prior to joining ACSC in January 2019, he was Chair of the Strategy Department at the Joint Advanced Warfighting School, in Norfolk, VA.