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Space Law

23 Dec

[Amir Hossein Asgari is a Ph.D. candidate in public international law at the University of Tehran, Iran] Introduction Israel’s recent launch of the reconnaissance satellite (Ofek-19), aimed at enhancing regional surveillance and intelligence capabilities, raises serious questions in the fields of international space law and public international law. The use of satellite technology for collecting security and military data is not only...

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18 Dec

[Dr Charles Ho Wang Mak is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol] A new generation of national laws and international agreements on commercial space mining is emerging, driven by the rapid privatisation of space activities and the pursuit of extraterrestrial resources. On 25 June 2025, Italy enacted its comprehensive Italian Space Law (Law No. 89/2025). This law establishes...

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11 Jul

[Joanna Kulesza is an Assistant Professor of International Law, and Executive Director at Lodz Cyber Hub, University of Lodz, Poland] Following the initial escalation of conflict between India and Pakistan, marked by India’s missile strikes on Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 7, 2025, tensions quickly de-escalated. Despite this rapid decrease in hostilities, the episode left significant implications for the contemporary understanding of...

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02 Nov

[Aysenur Zeynep Ozmen is a PhD student and teaching assistant at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. Her research interests are aviation and space law, autonomous vehicles and the legal aspects of artificial intelligence - all the cool stuff of law.] “This is space. It does not cooperate.”Mark Watney, The Martian (2015) Introduction David Bowie's Space Oddity was released in 1969, coinciding...

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08 Nov

[Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law.] This post briefly explores the peculiar interaction between international and national legal frameworks in the field of outer space resource extraction. This interaction generally follows three steps: First, international law provides a series of guiding principles. Then, these international law rules,...

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15 Aug

[Rohit Gupta is a final year student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and Prospective Member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).] In 2018, the United States (‘US’) Department of Defense submitted a legislative proposal to the US Congress outlining the establishment and structure of the US Space Force (‘USSF’). Globally, the establishment of the USSF produced a destabilizing...

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27 Jun

Call for Papers Human Rights and International Investment Law PhD Workshop - Call for Abstracts: The Erasmus Initiative Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity (Erasmus University Rotterdam) is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for a Human Rights and International Investment Law PhD Workshop, taking place online on 27 and 28 October 2022. The Workshop will bring together PhD candidates and investment...

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18 Apr

Call for Papers Call for Papers - ASCOMARE Yearbook on the Law of the Sea (Volume 2): Associazione di Consulenza in Diritto del Mare (ASCOMARE) is pleased to announce a call for papers for Volume 2 ("Fisheries and the Law of the Sea in the Anthropocene Era") of the ASCOMARE Yearbook on the Law of the Sea (YLoS). Building on the...

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27 Oct

[Cristian van Eijk (@crisveijk) is an international lawyer researching the international law and history of the outer space commons. He is also part of the International Law Working Group of the IAU and UNCOPUOS Dark and Quiet Skies Conference. He holds an LLM in Public International Law and a BA in International Justice from Leiden University, and is in the final stages of an accelerated BA...

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27 Sep

Events Gender, Women, and Leadership at the International Criminal Court:  Minerva Law is pleased to announce an event on "Gender, Women, and Leadership at the International Criminal Law" with Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi on the 8th of October 2021. This talk will focus on gender, women and leadership at the International Criminal Court. As President of the ICC, Dr Fernández de Gurmendi...

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11 Jul

[Valerie Oosterveld is a Professor at the University of Western Ontario (Western University) Faculty of Law in Canada and a faculty member with her university’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, also known as Western Space. Anne Campbell is a recent graduate of Western University and a current Western Space summer intern.] Plans for the extraction of water and minerals in outer space – particularly...

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11 Apr

Events Webinar on Palestine, Israel and the ICC: The Nottingham Law School (NLS) Centre for Rights and Justice is pleased to announce a webinar on 'The Long Walk to Justice: Palestine, Israel and the International Criminal Court' on 12 April 2021 from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm. The webinar will host the contributions of Prof Richard Falk, former UN special rapporteur on...

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