Continue reading »]]> The 57th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space took place in Toronto, Canada during October 2014.

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 of International Agreements Relating to Activities in Outer Space, the IISL/AIAA Scientific-Legal Roundtable Programmes, the IISL Space Law programme presented to the Legal Subcommittee’s Delegates and staff, and the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition.

Since 2011, the Proceedings of IISL Colloquia are published annually by Eleven International Publishing, under contract with the Institute. An IISL members’ 40% discount is available for proceedings bought from Eleven. Members can find info on the reduced price on the Eleven International Publishing web page.

	Proceedings of the 57th (2014) Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space – Table of Contents
	Proceedings of the 57th (2014) Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space – Report

Continue reading »]]> The names of the parties and their corresponding designation as Applicant and Respondent in the caption to the Compromis were inadvertently inverted from the order in which their submissions are made to the Court. To correct the error, the case is being re-captioned as SPIDR, Applicant, and URA, Respondent.

We sincerely regret any confusion which may have been caused by the original case title.

Manfred Lachs Moot Court Committee

Les Tennen, Co-Chair

Compromis 2015 corrected

Continue reading »]]> Professor Gennady Zhukov (1924-2014) Former Vice-President and Honorary Director, IISL

Gennady Petrovich Zhukov was born in Moscow on 30 April 1924.

As a teenager, he fought for the Soviet Union in the Second World War. In August 1941 he was hospitalized for shrapnel wounds but resumed military duties on the front from May to December 1942. Later he served as an instructor of physical education in the Kirzhach military unit. He was awarded with the “Order Of Great Patriotic War of I degree” and other medals.
He graduated from the All-Union Extra-Mural Law Institute (now the Moscow State Law University) in 1947 and entered graduate school at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, where he defended his dissertation, “The USSR strife for democratic resolution of the issue on the Polish-German border” (1951).

From 1951 to 1955 G.P. Zhukov was in charge of the law sector of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR. He continued to conduct research activities at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He worked as an Academic Secretary of the Commission of the Academy of Sciences of Interplanetary Space Legal Affairs.

In 1966 G.P. Zhukov defended his doctoral dissertation – “International legal problems of space exploration” in the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Later, he was appointed as the Head of the Department of International Law of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of USSR (1970-1978) and the Head of the UN Sector of the Department of International Organizations of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (1981-1988).

He spent more than 30 years of work associated with the People’s Friendship University of Russia. Zhukov initially taught there at the Department of International Law from 1965 to 1969, and then from 1988 until shortly before his death.
In 2010 Professor G.P. Zhukov initiated the process of preparing students of the Department of International Law to participate in the Manfred Lachs Moot Space Law Competition. On his initiative the Department established the Space Law Centre, which hosts conferences and round tables.
Zhukov served as a Vice President of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) for 15 years, finally becoming an Honorary Director of the Institute. In 1968 he was awarded with a gold medal and a diploma from the International Astronautical Federation and the IISL respectively for his contributions to the scientific development of International space law issues.

Professor G.P. Zhukov participated in many international diplomatic meetings and conferences, in particular sessions of the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the Working Group on Direct Broadcast Satellites, the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, the UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE, Vienna, 1968), Diplomatic Conference on International Air Law (1978) and the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (1979).

In 1978-1979 he was elected as the Deputy Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal and at the same time the director of the Legal Department of the Organization.

Zhukov took part in many international conferences, lectured International law at the universities of Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Canada, France, Greece, Poland, Switzerland, the USA and Finland. In 1978, he delivered a course of lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law on “Current trends of International Space Law development”, which was published in the Collected Courses of the Academy. He was an author of more than 300 papers.

Zhukov was a member of the Moscow Union of Journalists, a member of the World Association of International Law (London) and a member of its Committee on Space Law, member of the Russian Association of International Law, an honorary member of the Bulgarian Astronautical Society, a former member of Editorial Board of the Dutch journal Air & Space Law, member of dissertation councils of the PFUR and the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Under the leadership of G.P. Zhukov more than 40 theses in speciality “International Law. European law” have been defended.

On 6 February 2010 Professor G.P. Zhukov was awarded with the title of Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation.

His final work is the posthumously published 2014 textbook “International Space Law” edited by G.P. Zhukov and A.Kh. Abashidze.

Continue reading »]]> The IISL is happy to announce that the 9th Annual Eilene M. Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues of Space Law, will be held on December 10, 2014, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. This year’s theme is Non-Traditional Commercial Space Activities: Legal & Policy Challenges, Opportunities, and Ways Forward. Please find a tentative agenda below. It is subject to change, but the final agenda will be posted on the IISL website in the near future.

The Symposium is made possible by the generous financial support of Arianespace Inc., Fish & Richardson P.C., Kymeta Corporation, & the University of Nebraska College of Law, Space, Cyber & Telecom Law LL.M Program and the cooperation of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Download the agenda

Continue reading »]]> 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 to the work of the committee are invited to serve on it. Membership is open to any interested IISL member. The committee members help collect, review and verify data concerning selected space agreements. Agreements of general global applicability or regional applicability are selected for reporting. Bilateral agreements are not included in the report. In general, the agreements included in these reports, and their status, are believed to be valid as of the dates indicated in the respective reports.

2014 Standing Committee Report

Continue reading »]]> The 2014 World Finals were held at the Ministry of the Attorney General, Ontario Court of Law, Old City Hall, Toronto, Canada on 3 October 2014. Total participating universities numbered 61 in the four regions.

The 2014 problem was the Case Concerning Satellite Electromagnetic Interference (Akera v. Mheni) authored by Mahulena Hofmann (Czech Rep.), assisted by James Rendleman (US).

	2014 Lachs Moot problem
	2014 Brochure

Continue reading »]]> The International Institute of Space Law (IISL) released the Problem for the 24nd
Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition in 2015. The student competition
is based on a hypothetical space law dispute before the International Court of Justice
(ICJ). Preliminary competitions will be held between March and June 2015 in North
America, Europe, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The winning teams of the regional
rounds will meet in the World Finals in Jerusalem, Israel in October 2015 during the
annual IISL Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, in the framework of the
International Astronautical Congress (IAC). The Final Round is traditionally judged by
three judges of the International Court of Justice.

The Problem presents issues relating to the response to a threat to the Earth posed
by the risk of collision with a Near Earth Object (NEO). The problem also addresses
the utilisation of natural resources of the celestial object, and liability for damages
occasioned by the NEO.
The contact details for the Regional Rounds are:

• AFRICA: Adv. (Ms.) Lulu Makapela – [email protected]
• ASIA PACIFIC: [email protected]
• EUROPE: ECSL – [email protected]
• NORTH AMERICA: Dr. Milton (Skip) Smith – [email protected]

The name of the 2015 Moot Problem is “Case Concerning Planetary Defense (United
Republic of Adventura (URA) v. the Sovereign Peoples Independent Democratic
Republic (SPIDR)”, and is available using the link below:-

2015 problem