Amber Dagnall Editor

Michael Bohlander holds the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy at Durham University. He has been the International Co-Investigating Judge in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia since 2015. From 2017 until 2022, he was also an international judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.

Andreas Anton is a sociologist and works as a research fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany. He has studied sociology, history and cognitive science at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany.

John Elliott is the Coordinator of the SETI Post Detection Hub and a research fellow at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, UK. His SETI post-detection research merges human language universals, computational linguistics, signal processing, and dolphin communication with metapolicy and global impact strategies. His work focuses on signal content analytics, decipherment of unknown phenomena, and message construction; key challenges in preparing for potential contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.

Amber Dagnall is a PhD student at Durham Law School. Her research focuses on renewable energy law, particularly developing a legal framework for transnational offshore renewable energy and electricity interconnection across the British Isles. She also has a broader interest in comparative, environmental, marine, Islamic, and space law. She previously worked as a paralegal, and as a trainer at LexisNexis.