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Under the title of Legal Aspects of the Privatisation and Commercialisation of Space Activities, the Fifth Report of this Committee (Sofia 2012) discussed the value of satellite data in court, national space legislation, space debris, dispute settlement and registration issues. These were the central areas on which the Committee reported (2004-2012). The Sofia Conference adopted the Report of the Committee without dissent. This included the above-mentioned topics (Part I of the Report), and the Sofia Guidelines on a Model Law for National Space Legislation (Part II). The Committee has an established and continuing relationship with the UN institutions dealing with space law. Topics under the new mandate (2012-2016) are (a) dispute settlement and the 2011 PCA Rules on Arbitration, (b) legal aspects of suborbital flights, (c) satellite data in international litigation and (d) new developments on space debris. The Committee will keep a general watching brief over further developments

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  • Committee: Space Law
  • Committee Type: Current
  • Contact: Professor Maureen Williams
  • Address:
    Professor of Public International Law
    University of Buenos Aires
    Migueletes 923
    Buenos Aires
    C1426BUK
    Argentina
  • Fax: + 54 11 4772 3662
  • Email: maureenw777@yahoo.co.uk

Committee Officers:

  • Professor Maureen Williams, Chair
  • Professor Stephan Hobe, Rapporteur

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Committee News

  • Press release IISL 2013-001 - New IISL Statutes

    On 14 March 2013 the new Statutes of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), which had been approved by the IISL General Assembly in Naples, Italy, in October 2012, were passed by the Dutch notary. Thereby registered officially under Dutch law, the Statutes entered into force immediately, as consequently did the new bylaws.

  • 54th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space -International Institute of Space Law

    The 2011 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) took place in Cape Town on 3-7 October 2011. As traditional the Colloquium of reference was held in the framework of this Congress and the Proceedings, including presentations made by a number of ILA Space Law Committee members who attended the meeting, will be out later in 2012 in book format (printed version).

  • ESPI investigates the future of Space Law

    On the occasion of the 50th anniversaries of UNCOPUOS and its Legal Subcommittee (LSC) as well as the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin, ESPI hosted in cooperation with the Delegation of the Russian Federation to the UNCOPUOS an event with renowned academicians and practitioners to look into the status quo and the future of space law

  • Report of the ILA Space Law Committee to the 50th Session of the UN Space Subcom

    Report by the Chair of the ILA Space Law Committee on the contributions of the ILA to the development of Space Law (covering activities during 2010) to be submitteed, as a UN document, on 28 March-8 April 2011 in Vienna.
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