The second edition of this comprehensive handbook describes the legal grounds for human activities in outer space and on celestial bodies, including recent developments such as:
- Space travel by private companies
- NASA's Artemis programme
- Concrete considerations for colonising the moon and Mars
- Resource mining on celestial bodies
- Traffic rules for space
The second edition of this comprehensive handbook describes the legal grounds for human activities in outer space and on celestial bodies, includin...
The course evaluates the different phases of the development of space law against the background of the development of public international law. An analysis of current international space law investigates whether the body of law is ready for the challenges of outer space commercialisation and the rise of “New Space” in the 21st century. To accomplish this, it peruses through existing space law treaties, in particular the foundational Outer Space Treaty, as well as other sources of space law. Discovering that international space law developed as a permissive law that would enable the...
The course evaluates the different phases of the development of space law against the background of the development of public international law. An an...
