Space Conference Speaker

Mary Christine (M.C.) Sungaila

Partner, Complex Litigation Group; LLM Candidate, Center for Air and Space Law, University of Mississippi

Years of ISDC:
2024

M.C. Sungaila, partner at the Complex Appellate Litigation Group, is an award-winning appellate attorney who has litigated cutting edge cases before the highest courts. She is also an LLM candidate at the University of Mississippi’s Center for Air and Space Law, where she serves as Consulting Editor to the century-old Journal of Space Law and Coach to the school’s Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court team. Her article, Protecting Space Cultural Heritage: Lessons from the Holocaust Art Recovery Experience, which she was invited to present at the International Symposium on Cultural Heritage in War and Peace at the University of Bologna, is slated to be published in a forthcoming volume of the Journal of Space Law. She has studied Applied Complexity under both Joe Norman and Yaneer Bar-Yam of the New England Complex Systems Institute.


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