March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
...the national level. No country can claim any land in space. Everything in space counts as international ‘waters Thus, the existing international law gives no answer to the most important question raised under the conditions of space commercialisation...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... competition in offensive removal capabilities Therefore, international space law does not contain any provisions that could.... The way forward As many in the field of international space law have called for, solace for this conundrum and other...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...; Member of the UNESCO-EOLSS sub-committee on The Science of Space; Director, International Institute of Space Law; Member of the Space Law Committee, International Law Association; and ROOM Editorial Board member. This piece was written in June 2018...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... for future discussions by saying only that space resource utilisation is not inherently unlawful, must comply with international law, and will be the subject of additional efforts through the United Nations. These are not revolutionary statements...
May 2018
Why national space laws on the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies contradict international law
... Exploration and Use of Space Resources of 2017 stress that they are in conformity with the framework of international law. But is that really true? In the following article Stephan Hobe argues that such is not the case. It ...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... this principle applies to space objects and space debris. First, the principle of non-intervention, as part of general international law, applies to outer space activities in virtue of Article III of the Outer Space Treaty (OST). What is more...
