August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
...) establishing the link of jurisdiction and control over space objects; and iv) application and development of international space law in general. The sheer number of incorrect registrations over the years makes it imperative for UNOOSA to verify the...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
...focus on environmental stability. The cited reactionary tendency of the law can be said, in some sense, to be articulated by... lex: at least ideally, the form and content of the law, regulating discrete phenomena of human activity, is predicated on the...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... space community for eight years. Ciara Finnegan is a Hume Scholar and PhD researcher in International Humanitarian Law & Space Law at Maynooth University, Ireland, focusing on the regulation of the use of weapons in outer space from the perspective...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... through such means as: Looking to ‘new model’ national space laws (such as the French Operations Space Act and its mandated observance...Safety (IAASS) and the McGill Institute of Air and Space Law, as represented by the three authors of this article, ...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
...discuss the relationship between their respective domestic laws. For years the space law community debated whether the OST permitted ...government officials and the international community. The new US law is fully compliant with the OST and creates a ...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... This, in turn, may have an implication for liability and its insurance. This is a potential area of change in space law, though it is not expected that nations would be willing to give up ownership of their own debris in orbit. Clearly, a discussion...
