04 February 2018
The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Outer Space Activities
..., it covers IP rights, patents, the application of copyright law and aspects of private international law in relation to space activities. The volume concludes with a substantial bibliography and index. As is often the case with discussions of space...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...they do not have the binding force of international law and as such, they may well be the first casualty...with regard to the problem of space debris. Indian Journal of Law and Technology, 8, pp.1-10. 17: Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the ...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... of all countries, without discrimination of any kind, on a basis of equality and in accordance with international law, and all the other fundamentals of space law can be disregarded when it comes to national space operations. In this context special...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... able to meet customer demand through these publicly-funded R&D-oriented programmes. However, after the introduction of the Law, and perhaps even a few years before that, industry recognised that it would provide opportunities for them to invest...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... Prof Bin Cheng - Honorary President of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law - has argued. Prof Cheng is a world authority on international air and space law and played a central role in the adoption of the 1999 Montreal Convention, updating...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... them. The altitude of transition between the atmosphere and ‘space’ represents a crucial boundary between two very different legal regimes, aviation law and the law of outer space. Aviation law starts with the premise that nations are sovereign...
