August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
...is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in international law and space law at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She received her LL.M in Space Law and Telecommunications Law from the University of Paris-Saclay, France and her PhD from Sapienza University...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... David Kuan-Wei Chen is the Executive Director of the 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...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
...February 2018. The 21 guidelines covered the four areas of policy and regulation, safety, international cooperation, and scientific/technical R&D (see table). Hard law versus soft law The development of the LTSG inevitably begs the question as to why...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
.... In general, ‘forum shopping’ behaviour may not be caused by differences in national space laws, as more important fields of law (such as corporate law and tax law) are a greater driver in the decision-making process of where to establish a company...
February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... the United States. In February this year the government of Luxembourg announced an initiative to establish domestic laws and regulations to facilitate asteroid mining. [3] The announcement further signalled that Luxembourg was interested in directly...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...Outer Space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall be free for exploration and use by all States without discrimination of any kind, on a basis of equality and in accordance with international law, and there shall be free access to all...
