October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
... to deal with individual claims. It was suggested by Michelle Hanlon, Executive Director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi, that the claimant could make a claim under the Federal Torts Claims Act...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... Parties and with concurrence of the majority. About the author Upasana Dasgupta is a PhD candidate in law at the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University. Her doctoral thesis deals with preventing collisions in outer...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... should not be afforded the same protection as the provision of global internet services. Yet the extant space law position is clear: if the mission is for peaceful purposes and authorised by a national regulatory, then it is permitted. It is likely...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...they boiled down to this: some of the trickiest problems in space law and policy are at the same time speculative and of global ...Mars. Getting started Some of the trickiest problems in space law and policy are at the same time speculative and...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... risk faced by the commercial players Both the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) - the primary international professional society for attorneys in the space sector - and European Union (EU) officials have issued statements indicating...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
...debris may be partially sought in the introduction of some kind of legal criterion of non-functionality into space law to differentiate between valuable space objects and simple debris. The proverbial fly in the ointment is who can - or must - decide...
