The 55th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space took place in Naples, Italy during October 2012. Every year at the International Astronautical Congress, the IISL holds its Colloquium. Each IISL Proceedings issue contains selected papers that have been accepted for the Colloquium concerned, as well as reports of the Standing Committee on the Status …
Category Archive: 2012
Nov 30
2012 Lachs Moot winners
The World Finals were held on 4 October 2012 at the Palazzo du Mesnil of the Università degli studi di Napoli ‘lOrientale’, Naples, Italy. The 2012 problem was the Case concerning On-orbit Collision, Non-cooperative Satellite Removal, and Damages (Verona v. Montague), written by James Rendleman (USA). Click here to download brochure Winner, Lee Love …
Nov 06
2012 Standing Committee Report
At the meeting of the IISL Board of Directors held at Brighton, United Kingdom, in October 1987, the Board decided to create a standing committee of the Institute to prepare and submit at each annual Colloquium a report on the status of agreements relating to activities in outer space. Institute members who can contribute substantively …
Nov 04
International Geophysical Year (IGY) report
The IISL together with partners the IAF and IAA have produced this report on the International Geophysical Year. The IGY was a global co-operation for scientific study of various geophysical aspects and phenomena of the Earth and near-earth space. The programme included numerous disciplines collecting data in world-wide co-operation during the period 1 July 1957 …
Apr 30
Michel Bourély (1920-2012)
Dr Michel Bourély passed away on 26 April 2012, aged 92. Michel Bourély was born in Dakar, Senegal on 1 January 1920 to Joseph Bourély and Geneviève Berguerand. Upon returning from Senegal, Michel Bourély lived with his parents in cities where his father, an artillery officer in the colonial garrison had been posted – first …
Mar 30
Gyula Gál (1926 – 2012)
On 19 March 2012 after a serious illness Dr Gyula Gál Hungarian space lawyer has passed away in Budapest. He was a member of the IISL Board of Directors (1981 – 1996) and later its honorary director. He was born in 1926 in Debrecen, Hungary. Studied in the Reformed College and University of his native …
Feb 27
Carl Q. Christol (1913-2012)
Carl Quimby Christol, who pioneered the field of international space law, died of natural causes at his home in Santa Barbara, California on 22 February 2012 at the age of 98. Christol was a member of the faculty of the University of Southern California from 1949 to 1987 and authored numerous academic texts including “The …
