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Title: Private International Law Regarding Space Activities
Description: Originally, space law was of a purely public nature, but today more and more matters of a private law character are involved even at the international level. For this session, the first devoted exclusively to private law issues, papers are invited to address theoretical and practical issues and present concrete cases where private international law has become relevant for space activities.
Date: 2008-09-30
Time: 10:00
Room: Alsh 1

IPC members

Chairman: Prof. Francis Lyall, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K., United Kingdom;
Chairman: Prof. Lesley Jane Smith, Leuphana University of Lüneburg/Weber-Steinhaus & Smith, Germany;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	regarding formation of the international space private law	presentation	Ms. Mariam Yuzbashyan	Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)	Russian Federation
2	Achieving a Level Playing Field in Public Private Partnerships: Can Sovereign Immunity Upset the Balance?	presentation	Prof. Diane Howard	McGill University	United States
3	Capability and Fair Return in European and International Space Cooperation: the Example of Columbus	presentation	Prof. Lesley Jane Smith	Leuphana University of Lüneburg/Weber-Steinhaus & Smith	Germany
4	Space tourism: private law implications	presentation	Dr. P.P.C. Haanappel	Leiden University	The Netherlands
6	The need for a uniform law system protecting intellectual property rights in outer space	presentation	Dr. Hanneke van Traa-Engelman		The Netherlands
7	Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in cases of Damage from Space - the Advent of the Most Suitable Choice in Europe - Rome II	presentation	Prof. Lesley Jane Smith	Leuphana University of Lüneburg/Weber-Steinhaus & Smith	Germany
8	Liability from the launch of a space object as a matter of private law	presentation	Prof. Souichirou Kozuka	Sophia University	Japan
10	The future of the UNIDROIT Draft Space Protocol: legal proposals to encourage the participation of private financiers in space activities	presentation	Dr. Fabio Tronchetti	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
11	The UNIDROIT Draft Of A Space Assets Protocol - A Civil Law Instrument Under A Public Framework	presentation	Dr. Bernhard Schmidt-Tedd	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
12	CISG and the Final Frontier: Contracting for the Sale of Goods and the Risk of Loss in Outer Space	presentation	Dr. Michael Mineiro	Institute for Defense Analysis	United States
13	Which Laws Will Govern Private Space Travel, Commercial Space Mining and Commercial Space Settlements?	presentation	Prof. Edythe Weeks	Webster University Worldwide, Washington University and Northern Arizona University	United States

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