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Interstitial Space Law, Melissa J. Durkee
Interstitial Space Law, Melissa J. Durkee
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Conventionally, customary international law is developed through the actions and beliefs of nations. International treaties are interpreted, in part, by assessing how the parties to the treaty behave. This Article observes that these forms of uncodified international law—custom and subsequent treaty practice—are also developed through a nation’s reactions, or failures to react, to acts and beliefs that can be attributed to it. I call this “attributed lawmaking.”
Consider the new commercial space race. Innovators like SpaceX and Blue Origin seek a permissive legal environment. A Cold-War-era treaty does not seem adequately to address contemporary plans for space. The treaty does, …
The Legality Of President Reagan's Proposed Space-Based Ballistic Missile Defense System, John Topping
The Legality Of President Reagan's Proposed Space-Based Ballistic Missile Defense System, John Topping
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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