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Commercial Space Activities: An Inventory Of Liability - An Inventory Of Problems, Frans G. Von Der Dunk

Space, Cyber, and Telecommunications Law Program: Faculty Publications

Wherever commercial activities are undertaken, the question of liability for harmful effects of those activities to others is one of the first things to come to a lawyer's mind. With space activities of course, as long as endowed with commercial character, it is no different. Nevertheless, the special character of space activities as a category and space as an area, reflected in the corpus juris spatialis which has developed over the past decades as a lex specialis to the lex generalis of general public international law, provides this question of liability with a number of special features when regarded in …