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...
29 May 2018
Leader of first space nation to be inaugurated
...keep pace with humanity’s rapid technological and scientific expansion off-planet. Universal space law and astro-politics have to replace the current outdated international space law and geopolitics. “The Asgardia constitution was formed on the basis...
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...
