Professor Beard published a chapter, “The Principle of Proportionality in an Era of High Technology,” in Complex Battlespaces: The Law of Armed Conflict and the Dynamics of Modern Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Beard moderated two panels on key national security space law issues at the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) Advanced Operational Law Conference in Bellevue, Nebraska on September 6, 2018.
Beard moderated a panel at the University of Nebraska College of Law's 11th Annual Washington D.C. Space Law Conference, "Intersections of Commercial and National Security Space," at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on September 21, 2018.
Beard moderated a panel “War, Peace, and International Law on the Korean Peninsula,” at the International Law Weekend of the American Branch of the International Law Association in New York City on October 19, 2018.
Beard moderated a panel, “Space Law: Issues and Progress,” at the 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law of the American Bar Association, on November 1, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
Beard presented at a Space Law Symposium “Above the Horizon: Developments and Challenges to National Security in Space Law and Policy,” at the George Mason Law School, in Arlington, Virginia on November 26, 2018.
Beard presented at the Galloway Space Law Symposium, “Critical Issues in Space Law,” in Washington, D.C. on December 5, 2018.
Together with representatives of the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., Beard briefed the Staff of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on the Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Operations on December 5, 2018.
Beard led a session at a Law and Policy Workshop entitled “Defending America’s Place in Space: Future Threats and Rules,” Co-sponsored by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, at the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. on January 17, 2019.
Professors Beard and von der Dunk were quoted in an Agence France Presse article, “The US sees a rival in China”: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-space-rival-china.html.