A Supreme Court Justice once published a law review article called Space Colonization and the Law that had the following in the first paragraph:
[Y]ou may think that what I say is pure fantasy and that I’ve taken leave of my senses. Because I’m going to say something about the law and Outer Space-and specifically what prospect there is for involvement of the law and courts and lawyers in the still mysterious but surely burgeoning evolution of humankind’s effort to conquer the far reaches of the Universe.
Today’s Supreme Court trivia question of the day is, who was the Justice? Answer below the fold.
Justice Brennan. The article is William Brennan, Jr., Space Colonization and the Law, 3 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 7 (1990).
H/T: James Grimmelmann via FB.