Jack Wright Nelson

Assistant Professor, @thompsonriversu | Associate Academic Fellow, @cbflnus @NUS_Law | Doctoral candidate, @McGillU

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

A short piece from me, looking at Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty, on Völkerrechtsblog: "128 Words and the Weight of Worlds" https://t.co/HuxBmPbdsx

#spacelaw

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

2/2 For the 25/26 academic year, I'll be teaching Contracts for 1Ls, and Air and Space Law for upper-year students.

For now, it’s quiet days, curious deer, and exploring the wonderful @cityofkamloops.

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

1/2 Sharing a few snaps from Week 1 of my new beat at @TRUFacultyofLaw!

More deer than students at the moment - making it a very peaceful setting to keep pushing ahead with my thesis.

Stoked for September, when the campus will come alive with classes in full swing.

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

Been down this road myself - testing out large language models to see how they fare with different legal citation styles.

The laborious work of citation formatting is clearly destined for automation, but we're not quite there yet.

https://t.co/CyI2Cb5m0Z

[Annals of Air and Space Law @AnnalsAirSpaceL]

New post on our blog, Commentaries on Air and Space Law / Nouveau billet de blogue sur nos Commentaires sur le droit aérien et spatial :

Space Object Liability Beyond the Space Treaties:
A Lens on Africa

https://t.co/oiJtaLgYLL via @iaslmcgill

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🚨 Volume 49 is now available online via @HeinOnline / Le volume 49 est maintenant disponible en ligne via @HeinOnline

[E. Richard Gold @IP_policy]

@GregTSargent Canada needs to welcome these scientists into the country through visas, positions in universities, funding, and building partnerships around them. My piece in @globeandmail: https://t.co/IFzdPy8eEu

[E. Richard Gold @IP_policy]

If you are a @LawMcGill student (if not, do not apply) interested in working with me as a paid research assistant this summer on #IntellectualProperty , #Innovation, and legal theory, send me an email. Strong writing & teamwork skills necessary. Quantitative methods a bonus.

[Jyh-An Lee @JyhAn_Lee]

The 5th Machine Lawyering Conference

Abstract submission deadline extended to 6 February 2025

https://t.co/eN9fjBND7U

[Cris van Eijk @crisveijk]

[From 🔵☁️] Excited to share my new article, 'The Exclusive Making of Space Law', published (open access) in @LJIL_Leiden. It took me 3 weeks to write the first draft, but 3 years to finalise - and I'm grateful to everyone who helped me along the way.

https://t.co/chjUKMTIb6

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

Finally, an internet campaign I can get behind - a thylacine emoji!

@unicode @Apple

#TasmanianTiger

[Beth Shapiro @bonesandbugs]

🦣 🦤 (why is there no thylacine emoji?) @colossal https://t.co/nCdIm7Xfnw

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

Vale Elizabeth Nelson (1923 - 2025), my dear grandmother, who passed away peacefully today at the age of 101.

Photo is from her military identity card, taken upon her enlistment in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force during the Second World War.

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

Back in @cityofmelbourne for a few days. Somehow myki (@metrotrains) is even worse than I remember?

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A pleasure to appear alongside the inimitable @DonalPHanley in the latest Cape Town Convention Journal.

Professor Hanley���s article looks at leasing & the Cape Town Convention. My piece focuses on restoring Convention confidence post-‘Grand Theft Aero.’

https://t.co/OJyvFFgfWX

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

My first appearance on the @nus_law Law Research Blog: an article about AI, illustrated by an AI imagining its robot ancestor reading ancient treaties.

Pleasantly meta, delightfully recursive!

https://t.co/rlTYuFfLYT

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

@ntinatzouvala "In other words, xchvisnd ijnfsdjno nongosnd ofgins donf"

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13 more signatures since January for the #ArtemisAccords, for a total of 47. If this pace is maintained in 2025 - a big if - then we start to close in on 50% of Outer Space Treaty parties also being parties to the Accords. Seems momentous.

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

🇧🇪First signature of 2024 for the Artemis Accords. Now 34 signatories all up.

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@SciGuySpace Goodbye SLS?

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Positively stoked to have won the 2024 Brennan Essay Prize in Public International Law, with thanks to @ILA_Australia.

For anyone interested, my essay can be downloaded here: https://t.co/UfJwoYGs6k

[Jack Wright Nelson @JWrightNelson]

@angusthornett Light rail, everywhere