March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... legal and regulatory status of such undertakings. These efforts include the McGill University Air and Space Law Institute ‘Global Space Governance Study’ that devotes a chapter to this topic. From a practical rather than a legal viewpoint it would...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... many challenges. Among the most important ones are coordinating and leading discussions between the space industry and space law and policy in order to increase Poland’s participation in the international sphere. It must also create conditions for...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
...He was legal advisor to the Australian Defence Space Coordinating Office and chaired inter-departmental and international working groups in respect of strategic space law. His thesis topic for his Master of Laws degree at McGill University was on the...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... of legal action being successful are slim, but there is an argument that could be made, says Chris Johnson, a space law advisor at the Colorado-based pressure group the Secure World Foundation, in an interview with New Scientist. “It’s time...
15 February 2022
A new legal system for space
...he says. Beer, a British lawyer based in London and co-founder of Seven Pillars Law, also too on the role of Minister of Justice for Asgardia the Space Nation in 2021. “I became increasingly intrigued by the notion of an extraterritorial jurisdiction...
11 October 2018
Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism: legal and policy aspects
...of the engine of commercialism. As the editors of this text recognise in their introduction, the “greatest contemporary challenge in space law [which dates largely from the late 1960s] is adapting the ageing treaty framework to today’s very different...
