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Haris Durrani: Space History/Dune

  • VH202 NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South New York 10012 USA (map)

Dr Haris Durrani, JD, PhD (Princeton) is judicial clerk in the Federal Circuit 2024-25; an incoming Harvard History and Economics post-doc on satellite history. Dr Durrani will present ideas from his recently-completely History doctoral thesis on earth satellite programs in the 1960s. Haris Durrani has also contributed to literature on SciFi concerning space and other worlds. We read his short 2021 article, 'Frank Herbert, the Republican Salafist', about the political thought of the author of Dune (1965).

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.