[Dr Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter and a Board Member and Legal Advisor of the Moon Village Association (MVA). The MVA is a permanent observer at COPUOS. The author writes solely in his personal capacity.] In conjunction with its intersessional meeting on 24 September, the first of six planned before the UN Committee...
[Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Exeter Law School (as of June 2026), and an Associate Fellow at the Academy of International Affairs Nordrhein-Westfalen in Bonn, Germany. He also serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Brill) and as Legal Advisor to the Moon Village Association] Introduction: The Report In...
[Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, University of Luxembourg and the Legal Advisor for the Moon Village Association] Introduction The renewed interest in lunar exploration has intensified the competition between scientific research and commercial activities, particularly in regions like the Moon's south pole. This area is of significant interest due to its potential water ice...
[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,...