Space Governance Lab

A relevant podcast discussion on #Spacelaw, #lawfare from May 26, 2020 by the The Lawfare Institute in partnership with the The Brookings Institution. "To discuss the legal and policy challenges of this new era, Scott Anderson spoke with three lawyers working at the bleeding edge of space law and policy: Professor Timiebi U. Aganaba -Jeanty of School for the Future of Innovation in Society at ASU and its Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; Brian Israel, a former public and private sector space lawyer who teaches space law at Berkeley Law; and Daniel Porras, currently a space security fellow at the UNIDIR — UN Institute for Disarmament Research." https://lnkd.in/g-tK6Ahh #spacegovernance

To this day, witnessing Dr. Richard Lehun's doctoral defense at McGill Institute of Air and Space Law, is still the most inspiring scholarly pursuit, our founder Timiebi U. Aganaba has experienced. She penned some thoughts, inspired by Richards work on the #Emancipatory Justice Claim, in the context of her work on the CAIL Approach to Space Governance. #spacegovernance #CAILApproach

Lab members Caity Roe and Lenoa Williamson present their research at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at ASU poster session on Trust Mechanisms. They will also be presenting at the GETs/Emerging Technology Conference at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University Great Job! #spacegovernance

Space commercialization is not new! Since the 1960s, telecommunication satellites have been the most profitable space activity. The idea that its new plays done the efforts of developing countries, since the 90s to understand and better safeguard their rights to “space benefit”! The space benefit benefit agenda item was one such effort…. We still haven’t come to a test of “effectiveness”? Perhaps that’s about evaluation, monitoring and assessment of supposed “cooperation”! https://lnkd.in/ggyEzbyJ

Despite the rhetoric, #space is still very much the business of the State. This is a good introduction: “Today, most space activity is based around the design, launch, maintenance, and running of satellites in earth’s orbit, much of which is carried out by commercial entities rather than state actors. However, it remains the role of states to apply international space law through their own national space regulations and to oversee the activities of commercial space actors. It is thus essential that the roles played by the state in space, in terms of activities and space policy making are taken into account. The excitement that has emerged around SpaceX’s reusable rockets, Starlink’s media friendly insertions into geopolitical situations, and Blue Origin’s billionaire launch has eclipsed the state centred everyday necessity of communications satellites and the use of outer space for security purposes. However, the state must nonetheless find a way to strike a balance between encouraging these outputs and demanding safe and sustainable practices.” https://lnkd.in/gXmsERwt