September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
...agree on how debris removal should be seen from the legal and regulatory perspective, which is a very touchy and difficult...). From 2014 to 2016, he served as Chair of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer...
05 November 2015
Colonizing Mars – the legal way
...on Mars continue to grow and expand – but some legal experts have words of caution. NASA, for example, ...all expressed this aim. Still, experts point out that a number of legal ambiguities must be resolved before the first human being sets foot on Mars...
15 September 2021
Scottish billionaire ends legal challenge to Space Hub Sutherland
Space Hub Sutherland in Scotland can move forward without a legal challenge now that billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen has decided to abandon his fight against the launch ...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
...expressed a right to abandon their non-functional satellites in space. This sheds severe doubt on the possibility of introducing a legal regime of ‘salvage’, similar to maritime law, whereby actors other than the State of registry could freely remove...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
... a focus on environmental stability. The cited reactionary tendency of the law can be said, in some sense, to be articulated by the legal adage ex facto sequitur lex: at least ideally, the form and content of the law, regulating discrete phenomena...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... mankind”. This framing is important. Though the ethical obligation to use space to benefit the human population is a soft legal obligation, it has been used to help create a multilateral and cooperative security environment in outer space. While the...
