November 2018
Pole star rising
...international space missions. Polish diplomat and lawyer, Prof Manfred Lachs, played an important role in setting out the ...far beyond anything man has ever reached for?” Prof Manfred Lachs, the first chairman of the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee ...
28 May 2016
Editor-in-chief speaks at international space lawyers’ conference
The international meeting of space lawyers is addressing issues related to the state-of-the-art in current and future military security technologies and activities, military policies, and the challenges and risks they represent in terms of space ...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...of State Madame Madeleine Albright acknowledged, “To put it mildly, the world is a mess.” Shortly before, at the 2nd Manfred Lachs Conference on Global Space Governance at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Prof Barry Kellman had observed, “Space...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
...consistent set of rules. The result of the 2nd Manfred Lachs Conference was a unanimously agreed document called the Montreal ... is as follows. The Montreal Declaration The 2nd Manfred Lachs International Conference on Global Space Governance, held at ...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... not carry its military conflicts over into space itself. In May, as part of a keynote address at the 4th Manfred Lachs International Conference on Conflicts in Space and the Rule of Law in Montreal, Canada, I proposed that nations consider...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... governments are responsible for the oversight of non-governmental use of outer space - but as speakers at the recent Manfred-Lachs conference in Montreal, Canada, noted, the OST just did not foresee outer space as an area destined for...
