July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...they boiled down to this: some of the trickiest problems in space law and policy are at the same time speculative and of global ...Mars. Getting started Some of the trickiest problems in space law and policy are at the same time speculative and...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
...framework that their influence will extend to the use of space by States. By way of background, the Outer Space Treaty 1967 (OST) constitutes the central instrument of the international space law framework. The central aim of Article I, regarding the...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... risk faced by the commercial players Both the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) - the primary international professional society for attorneys in the space sector - and European Union (EU) officials have issued statements indicating...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
...debris may be partially sought in the introduction of some kind of legal criterion of non-functionality into space law to differentiate between valuable space objects and simple debris. The proverbial fly in the ointment is who can - or must - decide...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... the United Nations and other international forums to discuss the relationship between their respective domestic laws. For years the space law community debated whether the OST permitted a private company to own resources it obtained from an asteroid...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
.... About the authors Prof Dr Ram S. Jakhu is the Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He possesses professional experience of over 30 years in the field...
