Author: Güneş Ünüvar

[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,...