session 2

Title: Moon and Mars Settlement: Open Legal Issues
Description: The future Moon and Mars settlements shall not take place in a lawless space. They will be framed by valid international law; this has, however, only general answers to numerous concrete questions. To discuss the question of application of international and national laws to the future settlements on celestial bodies, the session invites contributions on the issues of authorization of space activities, the collision of national legislations, the jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases, the extension of human rights to the persons on the celestial bodies, the ownership of objects created on celestial bodies, intellectual property, the protection of environment, space transport, as well as allocation of frequencies to the Lunar and Martian communication.

IPC members

Co-Chair: Prof. Mahulena Hofmann, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ;
Co-Chair: Mr. Zhenjun Zhang, China Institute of Space Law, China;
Rapporteur: Mr. Federico Bergamasco, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	‘For All Moonkind’ - Legal issues of human settlements on the Moon: jurisdiction, freedom and inclusiveness	10	confirmed	Prof. Frans von der Dunk	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	The Netherlands
2	Legal issues surrounding human settlements on the moon and other celestial bodies	10	confirmed	Prof. Sandeepa Bhat	National University of Juridical Sciences	India
4	The Lunar Registry: An Enhanced Registry of Space Objects and Activities	10	confirmed	Ms. Ruvimbo Samanga	Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC)	South Africa
5	Developing and Managing Moon and Mars Settlements in Accordance with International Space Law	10	confirmed	Mr. Antonino Salmeri	University of Luxembourg	Luxembourg
6	Civilizational Inheritance and Transcendence: Why should ancient laws have any influence on space settlement?		confirmed	Prof. Christopher Johnson	Secure World Foundation	United States
7	Property Rights and Sovereignty within the framework of the Common Heritage of Mankind Principle	10	confirmed	Mr. Arpit Gupta		India
8	Back to the Future: Roman Law and Ownership of Objects Created on Celestial Bodies	10	confirmed	Ms. Gabrielle Leterre	University of Luxembourg	Luxembourg
9	‘Jurisdiction and Control’ over Space Products in the Age of Moon and Mars Settlement: An Analysis from a Private Law Perspective	10	confirmed	Prof. Fumiko Masuda	Okayama University	Japan
11	The extraterritorial application of human rights in outer space	10	confirmed	Mr. Jonathan Lim	Jus Ad Astra	Australia
12	The Forthcoming Collision of International Migration Law and International Space Law in the Settlement of Outer Space	10	confirmed	Mr. Andrew Butler	University of Melbourne	Australia
13	Outlaws of the Moon? Crime and punishment for a spacefaring civilisation	10	confirmed	Prof. Christopher Newman	Northumbria University	United Kingdom
14	Colonies on the Moon (and/or Mars)? New Challenges for International and National Law	10	confirmed	Prof. George (Georgios) D. Kyriakopoulos	National and Kapodistrian University Of Athens	Greece
15	Laws of Celestial Settlement: Opening a Two-Forked Legal Pandora-Box - Extension of National Law or an International All Inclusive Treaty	10	confirmed	Mr. Sethu Nandakumar Menon		United Arab Emirates
16	Futures scenarios for local and international law applicable to the settlement of the Moon as the basis of a settlement strategy	10	confirmed	Mr. Anton Alberts		South Africa
18	Compromise, Commonhold and the Common Heritage of Mankind	10	confirmed	Ms. Chelsey Denney	None	United Kingdom
20	Legal Support for the Private Sector: An Implementation Agreement for the Moon Treaty	10	confirmed	Mr. Dennis O'Brien	Space Treaty Project	United States
21	Space Settlements, Space Objects and the Concept of Territory in Outer Space	10	confirmed	Dr. Thomas Cheney	Open University	United Kingdom

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