On March 18, 2026, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal spoke on a panel addressing the legal framework governing space resource utilization, together with Neha Dagley and Rossana Deplano, with Kenneth Altshuler as moderator. The program was organized by Chris Salvino of Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLC. It is part of a series of panels on lunar mining titled “From the Moon to Earth: The Trillion-Dollar Helium-3 Frontier”.
The discussion addressed key issues including whether private entities may acquire rights over resources extracted from the Moon and how international law applies when multiple actors operate in the same lunar region.
The program recording is now available.
For further information, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal explored space resource utilization and specifically utilization of lunar resources in two papers; Jurisdictional Choice for Space Resource Utilization Projects: Current Space Resource Utilization Laws, 22 Santa Clara J. Int’l L. 1 (2024), available at https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/scujil/vol122/iss2/1, and Lunar Space Resource Utilization: Will We Soon Be Mining Space?, Orange County Lawyer, Dec. 2025, at 34, available at https://www.virtualonlineeditions.com/publication/?i=857432&view=issueViewer.
