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...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... the United Nations and other international forums to discuss the relationship between their respective domestic laws. For years the space law community debated whether the OST permitted a private company to own resources it obtained from an asteroid...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
.... About the authors Prof Dr Ram S. Jakhu is the Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He possesses professional experience of over 30 years in the field...
20 May 2022
Outer Space - future for humankind issues of law and policy
...and development. A key aspect that comes to the fore in any contemporary writing on space law is the fact that existing space law – as enshrined in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and its offshoots – is not directly applicable to many of today’s promised...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... realistic and obtainable possible courses of action, through such means as: Looking to ‘new model’ national space laws (such as the French Operations Space Act and its mandated observance of the 25 year de-orbit rule) Examining codes of conduct and...
