Giugi Carminati is a litigator in Houston, Texas. She practices commercial litigation, qui tam litigation, and white collar criminal defense at the trial boutique Berg & Androphy. She is also co-owner and co-manager of ADE Aerospace Consulting, LLC. Giugi has published numerous articles on commercial space and co-authored The Laws of Spaceflight: A Guidebook for New Space Lawyers. Giugi has an LLM in Space, Cyber & Telecommunications law from the University of Nebraska Law School. Finally, in 2012, Giugi published her first science fiction novel, Sparcus: Broken Worlds.
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