session 5

Title: Recent Developments in Space Law
Description: In this session, papers are invited to address legal aspects of the most recent developments in space activities that have taken place since the other session topics were determined, i.e. since March 2011 only.
Date: 2012-10-05
Time: 09:00
Room: TS10 (Sala Sirius, Hall 3)

IPC members

Chairman: Mrs. Corinne Jorgenson, Advancing Space;
Chairman: Dr. Ranjana Kaul, Dua Associates, India;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Legal Issues Presented by Hosted Payloads	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Milton Smith	Sherman & Howard, LLC	United States
2		The new development of China's space policy	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Li shouping	Beijing Institute of Technology	China
3		Culmination of efforts in the area of national space legislation in 2012	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Irmgard Marboe	University of Vienna	Austria
4		Capacity-building of the national space legislation in the post-soviet countries: the recent contribution of Kazakhstan	accepted	15'	withdrawn	Dr. Bernhard Schmidt-Tedd	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
5		The Emergence of National Space Law Legislation	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Paul Dempsey	McGill University	Canada
6		Space Law in the light of Bobbios's Theory of Legal Ordering	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. José Monserrat-Filho	Brazilian Space Agency (AEB)	Brazil
7		World Radiocommunication Conference 2012: Results Affecting Intergovernmental Satellite Organizations	accepted	15'	confirmed	Ms. Elina Morozova	Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications	Russian Federation
8		Orbiting under the Radar: Nano-Satellites, International Obligations and National Space Laws	accepted	15'	confirmed	Ms. Neta Palkovitz	ISIS- Innovative Solutions In Space B.V.	The Netherlands
9		The Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-12) and the World Radio Conference (WRC-12), Geneva, January/February 2012: Progress (?).	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Francis Lyall	University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.	United Kingdom
10		Space Insurance Law - A new step to space commercialization in the Russian Federation	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Olga Volynskaya	State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS	Russian Federation
11		ESA’s Choice of Futures: Envisat Removal or First Liability Case	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Martha Mejia-Kaiser	Independent Researcher	Germany
12		Actual Situation in the Geostationary Orbit	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Lubos Perek	Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of sciences	Czech Republic
13		Implementation of the French Space Operation Act for launchers, and contribution to the control of risks	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. CAHUZAC FRANCOIS	CNES	France
14		Legal issues related to third party liability insurance at realization of the Air Launch concept	accepted	15'	no-show	Mr. Dmitry Potapov	Air Launch Aerospace Corporation	Russian Federation
15		Draft UNGA Resolution on Sustainability of Space Environment	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Mahulena Hofmann	University of Luxembourg	Luxembourg
16		Another Addition to National Space Legislation: The Austrian Outer Space Act, adopted 6 December 2011	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Frans von der Dunk	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	The Netherlands