Toward a National Brazilian Center on Space Policy and Law Studies

Paper number

IAC-07-E6.1.15

Author

Mr. Alvaro Fabricio Dos Santos, Núcleo de Assessoramento Jurídico - NAJ/SJC, Brazil

Coauthor

Mr. José Monserrat-Filho, Brazilian Association of Air and Space Law, Brazil

Year

2007

Abstract

Why should Brazil have a National Center on Space Policy and Law Studies? Are there any institutions in Brazil dedicated to the systematic study of space policy and law issues? How many people specialized in these questions are currently working in Brazilian public and private entities involved in space activities – whether of a governmental, diplomatic, higher learning, research, industrial or commercial nature? If we have in mind the most important projects – present and future – of the Brazilian Space Program as a whole, what should the basic requirements be for specialists in Space Policy and Law questions? How do the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the General Command of Aerospace Technology (CTA) and its Institute of Aeronautics and Space (IAE) – namely, the main Brazilian space institutions – as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, face up to the many political and legal challenges underlying the use of outer space and the preparation of position-papers and documents for a decision making process in such strategic areas? Does this method of work meet the requirements for a more efficient development of Brazilian space activities and for a more effective performance in the framework of space programs on international cooperation and world space markets? If necessary, in what way should a Brazilian National Center on  Space Policy and Law Studies be organized and which should be its main objectives, courses and research programs?
The present paper aims at answering these questions with a view to sustaining the urgent need of laying down the basis for a Brazilian National Center on Space Policy and Law Studies, as a natural and crucial chapter in the Brazilian space development. This body is meant to have sound repercussion not only in Latin America but in other developing countries as well.
In the elaboration of this paper we are pleased to count with the contributions of Professors Armel Kerrest (University of Western Britanny, France), Frans von der Dunk (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz (The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, USA), Maureen Williams (University of Buenos Aires/Conicet, Argentina), Ram Jakhu (McGill University, Canada), Stephan Hobe (Cologne University, Germany), Sylvia Ospina (Space Law Consultant, Colombia) and Vladimir Kopal (University of Pilsen, Czech Republic).

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