August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
...-security incident, and the resolution of any claims under law, and indeed against whom the claims should be made..., in particular the requirements for compliance with international law and human responsibility, assessment of the risk of satellite...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... 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 the international community did not...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... private companies to register their activities with the government in order to receive a license, and the Remote Sensing Law, which establishes the parameters for private companies to sell satellite imagery, were established in 2016 to encourage the...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...-come-first-served maxim. In addition to this, space legislation clearly states the important principles of rule of law (including future law regime in Article 11 of the Moon agreement) and peaceful uses of space. We are living in exciting times but...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
...values and principles provides an established, coherent, and structured means of promoting good governance, reinforcing the rule of law, preserving the international rules-based order, and maintaining international peace and stability. What are human...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...Member of the UNESCO-EOLSS sub-committee on The Science of Space; Director, International Institute of Space Law; Member of the Space Law Committee, International Law Association; and ROOM Editorial Board member. This piece was written in June 2018.
