Bayar Goswami is a Doctoral student at the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University (IASL). He finished his first law degree in the year 2015, with distinction and honors in Business Laws from Institute of Law, Nirma University, India. Thereafter, he pursued LL.M. in Air and Space Law from the IASL where he wrote a thesis titled “Theorizing Cosmic Environmental Law” dealing with cosmology and studying the anthropocene epoch vis-à-vis the International Environmental and Space law.
Among other honor awards and fellowships, he is a recipient of the Erin J.C. Arsenault Fellowship awarded by McGill University for both his LL.M. and DCL and additionally was also awarded the Assad Kotaite Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship by the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization in 2017. He has been a TEDx speaker and is keen on participating in interactive platforms to engage in conversations involving social sciences of the outer space.
Presently, he is the Research Coordinator for the McGill Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS) project; Principal Researcher and Associate Editor of the McGill Encyclopedia of International Space Law; Representative to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation and has previously contributed significantly as a Research Assistant to key projects undertaken at the IASL like the International Study on Global Space Governance and the Space Security Index, 2016 and 2017 (SSI).
