Space tourism: private law implications
- Paper number
IAC-08.E8.1.4
- Author
Dr. P.P.C. Haanappel, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Year
2008
- Abstract
Space tourism, as envisaged at the time of writing in 2008, still rather experimental and potentially hazardous in nature, does not seem to call for new private international law instruments, in the form of treaties or otherwise. Existing freedom of contract, equality of bargaining power, contract law, tort law, the law of obligations, insurance law, private international law, and the law of conflicts will be able to solve liability and other private law issues arising out of space tourism activities. This stands in contrast with future, more elaborate space transportation systems where new private law instruments might indeed be required.
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