Dr Damian Bielicki

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Damian Bielicki
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Teaching and learning
Research
Leadership and management

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 has also taught, researched and delivered lectures and training courses in different countries in Europe, Asia and North America. 

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 with 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 a member of the International Institute of Space Law. He is also the founder of the Space Law Centre, the world's largest online database of space law and policy-related issues. 

Damian was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA); a recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standard Framework for teaching and learning in higher education. He has also received Teaching Excellence Award from Kingston University for the academic year 2022-2023. 

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
  • PhD in Law. Dissertation topic: Legal aspects of militarisation and weaponisation of space.

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 has designed and taught several other undergraduate and postgraduate modules at different academic institutions, with a particular focus of different aspects of international law and law of technology. The list of credit bearing modules he has developed include: Space Law, Cyber Law, Regulating Artificial Intelligence, Public International Law. Damian is also a Faculty Advisor preparing teams for the European rounds of Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition. He also sat on a panel of judges of the European Round of the Competition. 

Damian is a strong supporter of a PhD Programme. He successfully supervised PhD Candidates writing dissertations on different aspects of law and technology. He has also been an internal and external examiner of several PhD vivas.

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

  • Bielicki D., Okoli D., Legal Aspects of Space Tourism (this is a collaboration with the University of Hong Kong and will be published in a 2024 edited collection with Springer).
  • Bielicki D. (ed), Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Industry (Routledge 2023)
  • 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

Leadership and management

Damian is the Director of the Law & Technology Research Group at Kingston University: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-business-and-social-sciences/research/law-and-technology/  He has established a strategic collaboration between this group and a number of academic and professional institutions in different countries, including the Australia, Italy, Japan, Poland and the UK.

He is the founder of the  Space Law Centre, the world's largest online database of space law and policy-related issues: https://www.spacelawcentre.org/ 

He has initiated a strategic collaboration between different departments at Kingston University London, including: (1) Law Department (Faculty of Business and Social Sciences), (2) Department of Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering (Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Environment), and (3) Department of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation (Faculty of Business and Social Sciences).