January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
...firm. He is a seasoned civil and criminal defence litigator, with an LL.M in space law and is currently co-chair of the Space Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. The views expressed in this article are those of the author...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... are directly responsible for acts of its private actors under international space law. The Outer Space Treaty (Article III) also states that general international law is applicable to outer space. Reading Article VI harmoniously with Article III...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
... the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Hasselt, in Belgium. His research seeks to identify important constitutive legal aspects...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... McGill Centre for Research in Air and Space Law, and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is also the Managing Editor of McGill Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... regulations, standards and guidelines for design and operation, as well as use of space as per their national and international laws. It should also be noted that, prior to launch of the Starlink constellation, there had been no objection to the...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... in outer space from the perspective of the Principle of Humanity in International Humanitarian Law. She has a BCL International in Law and French and an LLM in International Justice. Ciara also has an interest in the Anthropocene, lunar resource...
