October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
...additional contributors and reviewers of this landmark Global Space Governance Study. Feel free to contact the organizers at: ram.jakhu@mcgill.ca. The precise wording of the Montreal Declaration is as follows. The Montreal Declaration The 2nd Manfred...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
Earth’s annual journey around the Sun represents a perilous cosmic voyage and for thousands of years humans have remained blissfully ignorant of the dangers of asteroids and comets, coronal mass ejections, solar radiation flares and other cosmic ...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... living and at the same time Earth faces a potential ‘doomsday scenario’ caused solely by human activities. Professor Ram Jakhu believes the solution to this worst-case scenario is to be found both in and from outer space. However, in order...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... and other planets. Editor’s note This article is an edited version, used with full permission, of a chapter contributed by Ram S. Jakhu and Nishith Mishra to the book Human Flourishing: The End of Law, Essays in Honour of Siegfried Wiessner, edited...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... is assured for the benefit and perhaps even ultimate survival of all humankind. About the authors Prof Dr Ram S. Jakhu is the Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Centre for Research in Air and...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
... we look forward to bringing the first space nation’s satellite to orbit in near record time.” Dr Ashurbeyli pictured with Ram Jakhu (left) and Jeffery Manber. After launch on an Orbital ATK rocket to the ISS, Asgardia-1 will be deployed from...
