That is the title of the talk I will be giving this weekend at the “LatCrit 2023 Biennial Conference“. (Click here or on the image below for more information about this year’s “LatCrit” conference, which is being hosted by Cornell Law School.) In brief, my talk will be based in large part on my work-in-progress “Gödel’s Loophole 2.0“, where I survey several proposed constitutions for the planet Mars. I will have much more to say about “Outer Space Justice” in my next post, but for now I want to take this opportunity to shout out my fellow LatCrit colleagues for fighting the good fight in so many different ways. Looking back, I attended my first of many LatCrit events in October 2004 (almost 20 years ago!) at my old stomping grounds, the Caribe Hilton, just a few blocks from my residence in the Miramar neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico! At that time, however, I had no inkling of the irresistible gravitational force this diverse and inclusive community of legal and literary lights would exert on my future intellectual development. Among other things, LatCrit is where I first met such inspiring scholars as Cecil Hunt, Tayyab Mahmud, Saru Matambanadzo, Margaret Montoya, and Frank Valdes, all of whom not only ended up being mentors and role models; they also became lifelong friends.


