session 3

Title: Third party liability issues in commercial space activities
Description: a) Third party liability issues in commercial space activities. b) legal challenges to earth observation programs with particular emphasis on developing countries.
Date: 2009-10-14
Time: 10:00
Room: Technical Session #4

IPC members

Chairman: Prof. Toshio Kosuge, University of Electro-Communications, Japan;
Chairman: Prof. Doo Hwan Kim, The Korean Association of Air and Space Law, Korea, Republic of;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Too-Close Encounters of the Third-Party Kind: Will the Liability Convention stand the test of the Cosmos 2251-Iridium 33 collision?	15'	Prof. Frans G. Von der Dunk	University of Nebraska, College of Law	The Netherlands
2	Legal Problems Concerning Space Debris and the Liability Convention	15'	Prof. Doo Hwan Kim	The Korean Association of Air and Space Law	Korea, Republic of
3	PERSONAL INJURY AND SURFACE DAMAGE LIABILITY FOR AEROSPACE VEHICLES	15'	Dr. Paul Dempsey	McGill University	Canada
4	third party liability arising from gnss-realted services	15'	Prof. Souichirou Kozuka	Sophia University	Japan
5	Nuclear liability – a feasible model for the space sector?	15'	Prof. Lotta Viikari	University of Lapland	Finland
6	The problem of absolute liability on the Moon.	15'	Prof. Gennady Zhukov	People's Friendship University	Russian Federation
7	FACING UP TO THIRD PARTY LIABILITY FOR SPACE ACTIVTIES: SOME REFLECTIONS	15'	Prof. Lesley Jane Smith	Leuphana University of Lüneburg/Weber-Steinhaus & Smith	Germany
8	Interoperability of GNSS, legal issues and implications Under private international law for an end user	15'	Mr. Muhamed Mustaque		India
9	COLLISION COURSE: 2009 IRIDIUM-COSMOS CRASH	15'	Dr. Martha Mejia-Kaiser	Independent Researcher	Germany
10	Determining Liability for Damage Caused Due to Debris in Outer Space: - Portal to a New Regime	15'	Mr. Utsav Mukherjee		India