October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... the proliferation of and increased access to new technologies, traditionally and historically imparted laws and regulations, particularly international law and international relations, are being torn apart bit by bit. The Lisbon Declaration on Outer...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
... best practice and best practice by non-governmental actors, which immediately implies that this is not binding international law. Of course, the space industry, satellite operators and all non-governmental actors have to be part of any future...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... to obtain, transport, own, sell and use the resources, all tempered only by reference to ‘applicable’ law - including US domestic and international law. [14] This section is the crux of the Act, giving property rights to space mining operators that...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... Faculty, London Institute of Space Policy and Law; Director, International Institute of Space Law; Member of the Space Law Committee, International Law Association; Member, European Centre of Space Law; Member of Management Board, MILAMOS Project.
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... and obvious’ dominion and control exercised over the Apollo lunar samples, it is clear that under customary international law, portions of a celestial body can be subject to ownership if they are removed from that celestial body. It is also possible...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... the Outer Space Treaty, Article III references that outer space activities shall be conducted “in accordance with international law”. The onus thereby falls upon states to clarify how IHRL applies within the context of space activities...
