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session 3

Title: Weaponisation of Outer Space in the Light of the Outer Space Treaty, Part B
type: oral
Description: Papers are invited to address legal aspects of evolving national policies and military doctrines and international responses thereto.
Date: 2008-10-01
Time: 09:30
Room: Alsh 1

IPC members

Chairman: Dr. Jonathan F. Galloway, Lake Forrest College, United States;
Chairman: Prof. José Monserrat-Filho, Brazilian Association of Air and Space Law, Brazil;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Some Legal Problems on the Prevention of Proliferation of Weapons in Outer Space	presentation		Prof. Anatoly Y. Kapustin	International Law Institute	Russian Federation
2		Outer Space: Arena for War or Peace	presentation		Dr. Sa''id Mosteshar	Chambers of Dr Sa'id Mostehsar	United Kingdom
3		Updating the Outer Space Treaty - a US perspective	presentation		Mr. Stephen Day	International Ventures (iVA) Ltd.	United States
4		Legal aspects relating to Disarmament, Space Control, Space Situational Awareness and International Space Traffic Management	presentation		Ms. Johanna Catena	Continuum Connect	United Kingdom
5		Limits on Space Weapons: Incorporating the Law of War into the Corpus Juris Spatialis	presentation		Mr. PJ Blount	LL.M. in Air and Space Law	United States
6		Distintion between Militarisation and Weaponisation of Outer Space, A Misleading Concept	presentation		Dr. Ali Akbar Golroo	Aerospace Research Institute	Iran
7		Weaponization of Outer Space and Impact on Peaceful Uses	presentation		Mr. V. Gopala Krishnan	Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)	India
8		Space Debris - The Threat to Commercial Use of Space	presentation		Dr. Paul Dempsey	McGill University	Canada
9		Star Wars of The Third Millennium: Legal Implications of Satellite Shooting	presentation		Mr. Dhruv Sharma	NALSAR University of Law	India
10		Need of the Hour: A Regulatory Framework for the Military Use of Outer Space	presentation		Mr. Sreekumar Panicker Kodiyath		India
11		Weaponisation of Outer Space and International Rule of Law	presentation		Prof. Haifeng Zhao	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
12		The 2008 Russia / China Proposal for a Treaty to Ban Weapons in Space: A Missed Opportunity or an Opening Gambit?	presentation		Prof. Steven Freeland	University of Western Sydney	Australia
13		Breaking from the Past: A new Approach to Space Security	presentation		Mr. Kiran Nair	Centre for Airpower Studies (CAPS)	India
14		Issues Arisen from Destruction of Satellites by Missiles	presentation		Prof. Yan Ling		China
15		Issues on the Asia-Pacific Outer Space Cooperation and Sino-Russian Treaty of Peaceful Use of the Outer Space	presentation		Prof. Sun Guorui	Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA)	China