Rachel Pulfer Canadian Business Online, Gabriele Wohl is a law student. But Gabriele Wohl isn’t just any law student. A 26-year-old from Charleston, W.Va., who once dreamed of being an astronaut, Wohl studies the law of space. Few institutions in North America offer courses in space law. Wohl is at the University of West Virginia. (The others are George Washington University, University of Mississippi, the Universities of Nebraska and North Dakota, and McGill University.) Yet the market for commercial space activity is exploding. One recent paper on space travel, submitted in June to Congress, puts the current value of commercial space activity at US$180 billion. With a market that large, there’s clearly a need for such an esoteric legal specialization. Think of the debates in Canada that raged earlier this year over the...
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