May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... all of the principles, guidelines and resolutions on which today’s global space economy is built. The office also assists Member States to put their own space laws into place, helping them launch and register satellites, and even...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...proactively? This is one of the key issues addressed by the McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law project - the Global Space Governance Study, an interdisciplinary study guided by the Montreal Resolution of May 2013 and unanimously adopted...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
..., AstroAgency, and it draws a large and diverse crowd from all aspects of the space industry - CubeSat developers, university researchers, space law and finance professionals, quantum software designers, solutions architects, robotics experts and...
31 July 2019
Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Trends and Challenges for Economy and Society
... with respect to the rights of employees. The respective analyses emerge from both international and national space law, with an emphasis on the relevant European action (INSPIRE Directive, Copernicus). This book constitutes a successful effort...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...and practice. Unfinished business While extracting resources from celestial bodies may be fundamentally legal under international space law, other provisions of the OST must be complied with, and sadly, the US legislation ignores both. First, Article...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
...firm. He is a seasoned civil and criminal defence litigator, with an LL.M in space law and is currently co-chair of the Space Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. The views expressed in this article are those of the author...
