August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) as a permanent body, which had 24 members at the time. It has now grown to 84 members. Non-appropriation of outer space Adherence to academic discussion does not yield any useful results in the practice of carrying out...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... of nations took a major step to promote the peaceful exploration and use of outer space by the adoption of the non-appropriation doctrine. Article II of the Treaty provides: “Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... which would allow a fair and satisfying use of space resources. If we follow current legal framework, we encounter an imperative ‘non-appropriation” principle, as well as the principle for using outer space for peaceful purposes and for the “benefit...
04 November 2015
Colonizing Mars – the legal way
... it. As Sarah Burns and Jacob Haqq-Misra write in the Guardian, “The absolute restriction on sovereign claims by the non-appropriation principle [in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967] could lead to future conflict.” How to work to resolve this? Well...
