session 2

Title: Legal Issues of Commercial Human Spaceflight
type: oral
Description: The first sub-orbital spaceflights for tourists will soon take off and, possibly within a few years, such flights will be offered by various operators from a number of places around the globe. This session will deal with legal and regulatory issues of commercial spaceflight, both on an international and on a national level. Such issues include liability, certification and safety requirements, as well as issues related to the spaceflight services private operators may start offering to public customers.
Date: 2011-10-04
Time: 15:00
Room: TS-12

IPC members

Chairman: Prof. Frans G. Von der Dunk, University of Nebraska, College of Law, The Netherlands;
Chairman: Prof. Steven Freeland, Western Sydney University, Australia;
Rapporteur: Mr. Michael Dodge, Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, Canada;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	National Space Legislation - The Work of the Legal Subcommittee of Uncopuos 2008-2011	10'	confirmed	Prof. Irmgard Marboe	University of Vienna	Austria
2	Liability risk sharing regime of the bill of japans legislation on space activities and its comparison with the US and french law	10'	confirmed	Mr. Daisuke Saisho	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
3	Space procurement regulation: the colombian procurement act of 2010	10'	confirmed	Prof. Camilo Guzman Gomez	UNIVERSIDAD SERGIO ARBOLEDA	Colombia
4	Japanese Perspective on Legal Issues of Commercial Human Spaceflight -Regulatory thresholds and potentials-	05'	confirmed	Mr. Daisuke Saisho	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
5	Analysis of the Applicable Law to a Private Spaceflight Contract under the Latest Chinese Conflict Rules Legislation	10'	confirmed	Dr. Guoyu Wang		China
6	Legal issues in commercialspaceflight projects in spain	10'	confirmed	Mr. RAFAEL HARILLO		Spain
7	NASA’s Commercial Crew Transportation System Requirements and the FAA Human Spaceflight Regulations: A Study in Contrasts	10'	confirmed	Prof. Mark Sundahl	Cleveland State University	United States
8	Private in Human Access to Space and Incentive Based Regulation in the United States	10'	confirmed	Mr. PJ Blount	LL.M. in Air and Space Law	United States
9	LIABILITY, INSURANCE & INDEMNIFICATION IN NATIONAL SPACE LAW	10'	confirmed	Dr. Paul Dempsey	McGill University	Canada
10	Regulating sub-orbital flights traffic: using air traffic control as a model?	10'	confirmed	Dr. Fabio Tronchetti	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
11	international regularity body, a key to space tourism success	10'	confirmed	Dr. Ali Akbar Golroo	Aerospace Research Institute	Iran
12	Does the Rescue Agreement Apply to Space Tourists?	10'	confirmed	Prof. Yan Ling		China
13	Pie in the Sky: Thrilled or Calamitous? -- A Spaceflight Participant-Friendly Perspective	15	confirmed	Ms. Zhuoyan Lu	University of Lapland	Finland
14	A new international convention to govern liability in relation to commercial space tourism - is it really necessary?	10'	confirmed	Ms. Carol Ronan-Heath	International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University	United Arab Emirates
15	The Sub-Orbital Private Space Flights may Require a Law Suit to Escape Benefit Sharing	10'	confirmed	Mr. Declan O'Donnell	United Societies in Space, Inc.	United States

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