Moon and Mars Settlement: Open Legal Issues
The future Moon and Mars settlements shall not take place in a lawless space. They will be framed by valid international law; this has, however, only general answers to numerous concrete questions. To discuss the question of application of international and national laws to the future settlements on celestial bodies, the session invites contributions on the issues of authorization of space activities, the collision of national legislations, the jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases, the extension of human rights to the persons on the celestial bodies, the ownership of objects created on celestial bodies, intellectual property, the protection of environment, space transport, as well as allocation of frequencies to the Lunar and Martian communication.
Co-Chair: Prof. Mahulena Hofmann, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ;
Co-Chair: Mr. Zhenjun Zhang, China Institute of Space Law, China;
Rapporteur: Mr. Federico Bergamasco, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ;
Order | Time | Paper title | Selection result | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Prof. Frans von der Dunk | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | The Netherlands | ||
2 | Legal issues surrounding human settlements on the moon and other celestial bodies | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Prof. Sandeepa Bhat | National University of Juridical Sciences | India | |
4 | The Lunar Registry: An Enhanced Registry of Space Objects and Activities | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Ruvimbo Samanga | Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) | South Africa | |
5 | Developing and Managing Moon and Mars Settlements in Accordance with International Space Law | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Antonino Salmeri | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg | |
6 | accepted | confirmed | Prof. Christopher Johnson | Secure World Foundation | United States | |||
7 | Property Rights and Sovereignty within the framework of the Common Heritage of Mankind Principle | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Arpit Gupta | India | ||
8 | Back to the Future: Roman Law and Ownership of Objects Created on Celestial Bodies | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Gabrielle Leterre | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg | |
9 | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Prof. Fumiko Masuda | Okayama University | Japan | ||
11 | The extraterritorial application of human rights in outer space | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Jonathan Lim | Jus Ad Astra | Australia | |
12 | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Andrew Butler | University of Melbourne | Australia | ||
13 | Outlaws of the Moon? Crime and punishment for a spacefaring civilisation | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Prof. Christopher Newman | Northumbria University | United Kingdom | |
14 | Colonies on the Moon (and/or Mars)? New Challenges for International and National Law | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Prof. George (Georgios) D. Kyriakopoulos | National and Kapodistrian University Of Athens | Greece | |
15 | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Sethu Nandakumar Menon | United Arab Emirates | |||
16 | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Anton Alberts | South Africa | |||
18 | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Chelsey Denney | None | United Kingdom | ||
20 | Legal Support for the Private Sector: An Implementation Agreement for the Moon Treaty | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Dennis O'Brien | Space Treaty Project | United States | |
21 | Space Settlements, Space Objects and the Concept of Territory in Outer Space | accepted | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Thomas Cheney | Open University | United Kingdom |