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.

2017 Standing Committee Report

Continue reading »]]> The latest edition of the Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law is now available for order from Eleven Publishing. 

This volume contains the proceedings of the 59th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space held during the IAC in Guadalajara, Mexico in September 2016, as well as the papers presented at the IISL-ECSL Space Law Symposium held on the occasion of the 55th Session of the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna, Austria in April 2016, and the report of the 11th Eilene M. Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law, held in Washington D.C., United States in December 2016. It also contains the report and best written memorials of the World Finals of the 25th Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition.

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https://www.elevenpub.com/law/catalogus/proceedings-of-the-international-institute-of-space-law-2016-1-2017

Continue reading »]]> The August 2017 newsletter is now available.

In this edition, the IISL publishes details of the Annual Awards Dinner which will be held on Thursday 28 September at the Mortlock Chambers, State Library of South Australia (in Adelaide).

On another matter, the IISL needs some help with videography and photography in Adelaide. If you are attending and have some experience with video and or photography, we need your assistance. The Moot Court finals need to be filmed. We also need photos taken during the Awards Dinner. This can be the same person or two different people.

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Continue reading »]]> The IISL Board of Directors recently submitted a letter for the record to US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness May 23 hearing “Reopening the American Frontier: Exploring How the Outer Space Treaty Will Impact American Commerce and Settlement in Space.”

The letter is available here: IISL Board Letter to US Congress May 2017

Continue reading »]]> The June 2017 newsletter is now available.

The newsletter contained an extensive report about this year’s Lachs Moot competition and its regional rounds.

The Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court World Semi-Finals and Finals will be held Tuesday, September 26 and Thursday, September 28, in Adelaide, Australia on the sidelines of the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC).

The World Semi-Finals between the University of Mississippi (USA), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and the National Law School, India University (India) will be held on Tuesday, September 26.

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Continue reading »]]> The International Institute of Space Law published a newsletter during May 2017.

The IISL Board of Directors met for its Spring meeting in Vienna. The 19 participants from 13 countries reviewed the series of successful events in 2016, approved new individual and institutional members (amongst them the European Space Agency and McGill University) and adopted new Rules of Procedure for the General Assembly meetings. It acknowledged with appreciation the President Emeritus’ and the Secretary’s successful effort to provide IISL with the prestigious and highly relevant Consultative Status with UN-ECOSOC.

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Continue reading »]]> April’s International Institute of Space Law newsletter published a newsletter during March 2017.

Among other topics, the newsletter discussed at length the IISL/ECSL 2017 Space Law Symposium – “Legal Models for Exploration, Exploitation and Utilization of Space Resources 50 years after the Adoption of the Outer Space Treaty” – held at the Vienna International Centre on the occasion of the 56th Session of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

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Continue reading »]]> Does international space law either permit or prohibit the taking of resources in outer space and on celestial bodies, and how is this relevant for national actors? What is the context, and what are the contours and limits of this permission or prohibition?

A background paper was prepared, written by various authors under the overall responsibility of Professor Stephan Hobe, Cologne, Chair of the IISL Directorate of Studies, and presented to the IISL Board of Directors at its session of 26 March 2017.

Download the IISL DoS study here