March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... ‘by means of use or occupation, or by any other means’, [18] then these activities would stand in stark opposition to decades of legal protection for the space environment. In contrast, the United States seems to be operating under the notion that...
February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...scholars strove to focus debate on these issues before widespread development of outer space could establish customary international legal precedent that carried national conflicts into space. [6] Even before humans left the surface of Earth, lawyers...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... practical decisionmaking and conflict resolution Existing space legal structures, including liability, must be reconsidered .... We need new ideas, new technologies, new markets, new legal and policy structures, and new ways of cooperating. The future ...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... has completed internships at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the Legal Department of ESA. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the World Champions Award of the...
11 October 2018
Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism: legal and policy aspects
... first of three main parts of the volume tackles these ‘legal challenges’, Part II covers the ‘regulatory responses’ and Part ...III discusses ‘space governance’. The authors are legal, policy and industry experts and the style of the book ...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... to mine the Moon and asteroids are in place, confronting scholars, politicians and space professionals with challenging legal, economic, scientific and ethical questions. Some of these questions are deceptively simple to express, yet their answers...
