November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... able to meet customer demand through these publicly-funded R&D-oriented programmes. However, after the introduction of the Law, and perhaps even a few years before that, industry recognised that it would provide opportunities for them to invest...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
...a legal consultancy 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...
November 2018
Pole star rising
...: International Legal Aspects (Kluwer International, 2017) and numerous articles on insurance and space law and practice. Katarzyna is attorney-at-law and a partner in BMSP Legal Advisors law office in Warsaw, as well as Chairperson of the Polish...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... countervailing voices must be heard. There are so many positive aspects to how space should be viewed. This is supported by law and practice. Ironically, a good starting point could also be drawn from the words of President Trump himself: “There...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... Prof Bin Cheng - Honorary President of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law - has argued. Prof Cheng is a world authority on international air and space law and played a central role in the adoption of the 1999 Montreal Convention, updating...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... them. The altitude of transition between the atmosphere and ‘space’ represents a crucial boundary between two very different legal regimes, aviation law and the law of outer space. Aviation law starts with the premise that nations are sovereign...
