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...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... has the ability to make sovereign proclamations in respect of the Moon which is categorically incorrect and a violation of international law and the Outer Space Treaty by which the United States is bound. Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a geologist and...
18 October 2016
Plans for first ever Space nation "Asgardia" announced today
... reality in space. It is of crucial importance that space law does not become the law of the jungle. Today, only 20 countries on Earth out...We feel that this is not permissible. New space law has to equally protect the interests of every human being...
