The Space Treaties at Crossroads

Chapter 1 Positive Space Law and Privatization of Outer Space: Fundamental Antinomies

Chapter 2 Interpreting the UN Space Treaties as the Basis for a Sustainable Regime of Space Resource Exploitation

Chapter 3 The Effectiveness and Applicability of the Moon Agreement in the Twenty-First Century: Will There Be a Future?

Chapter 4 The Interplay Between Space Law and International Investment Law: Local Equity Requirements as a Model for Standards of Global Action in the Uses of Outer Space

Chapter 5 From Little Things, Big Things Grow: How Should We Regulate the Commercial Utilization of Small Satellite Technology?

Chapter 6 Using Space Objects in Orbit as Transaction Objects: Issues of Liability and Registration de lege lata and de lege ferenda

Chapter 7 Is the Launching State the Only “Appropriate State” to Register a Space Object? Change of Registry in Case of Change of Ownership

Chapter 8 From Sea to Outer Space and Back: Political, Economic, and Environmental Considerations for Ocean-Based Space Launching Activities

Chapter 9 Judicial Settlement of Space-Related Disputes: Sovereignty’s Final Fetters

Chapter 11 Legal Challenges of the New Space Race to Mars: Proposal for the Use of a Three-Tier Legal Framework

Chapter 12 The Consolidation of the Five UN Space Treaties into One Comprehensive and Modernized Law of Outer Space Convention: Toward a Global Space Organization