Ashling Sugarman is a Juris Doctor candidate (’27) at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, where she serves as Vice President of the International Law Society and Junior Staffer on the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Law. During summer 2026, she is gaining valuable experience as a legal intern at the Federal Communications Commission’s Space Bureau. This role follows her spring 2026 legal internship with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Aviation, Space, and Admiralty Litigation Section in Washington, D.C.   She joined the Space Court Foundation as a legal intern in May 2025, contributing research and translation to the Foundation’s Big Book of Space Law for China, and contributing to the third volume of the Foundation’s Student Space Law Journal. Ashling is a member of the Space Generation Advisory Council: Space Law and Policy Project Group and a legal intern at Lunar Geographical Society. She holds a B.S. in International Business from Pepperdine University and speaks beginner Mandarin.    Ashling is passionate about developing legal frameworks that promote both sustainability and innovation, with a focus on space governance, export controls, and orbital traffic management to support the responsible growth of the commercial space sector.