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Sovereignty Versus Space - Public Law And Private Launch In The Asian Context, Frans G. Von Der Dunk
Sovereignty Versus Space - Public Law And Private Launch In The Asian Context, Frans G. Von Der Dunk
Space, Cyber, and Telecommunications Law Program: Faculty Publications
In the more than forty years which have gone by since the birth of space law, there has not been a more revolutionary development than the rapidly increasing involvement of private entities in space activities. International space law in the narrow sense—essentially five space treaties and five United Nations Resolutions on space constituting the core of the corpus juris spatialis internationalis— developed for its most fundamental part when only states (and a few international organisations) were undertaking space activities in any meaningful sense of the word. Its exclusively public character, for example in terms of rights and obligations provided …