12 October 2016
‘Asgardia’ to become the first new Space Nation
...for any damage that occurs internationally and in outer space. The project is creating a new framework for ownership and nationhood in space, which will adapt current outer space laws governing responsibility, private ownership and enterprise so they...
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...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... the auspices of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) means that, even though the space community prides itself on being ‘cohesive’ and ‘all-inclusive’, engineers rarely talk to lawyers...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
...and data-sharing among nations and operators. Current space sustainability efforts rely on the United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty of 1963, containing relevant international space law regulations. The framework states in Article IX that parties should...
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...
