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The Cape Town Convention And The Law Of Outer Space: Five Scenarios, Mark J. Sundahl
The Cape Town Convention And The Law Of Outer Space: Five Scenarios, Mark J. Sundahl
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The adoption of the Space Assets Protocol to the Cape Town Convention marked a new era in the evolution of the law of outer space by providing the first space treaty regarding private international law. This Protocol was not created in a legal vacuum, but was drafted against the background of the existing United Nations space treaties that were drafted in the 1960s and 1970s. Although the existing UN treaties address public international law and therefore cover subject matter that is quite distinct from the private law issues addressed by the Space Assets Protocol, there are still points at which …