Review of: Bleddyn E Bowen Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space (Hurst 2022) Bleddyn Bowen’s Original Sin serves as a...

The death of a head of state is always a significant event, particularly when they are still in office. The death of Queen Elizabeth II...

Michael Cox Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden (Bristol UP 2022) https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-agonies-of...

I write this on the morning of Thursday 24 February 2022. I have woken up to the news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1] This is a...

There’s a long and short answer to the question of whether terraforming is legal, and (un)fortunately one word covers both: maybe. In...

This will be the first in a series of posts on this topic, I’ll fully admit that I don’t have a plan but I have at least three more in...

Hello and welcome (or welcome back)! I have been debating relaunching this blog for a good six months now, and getting all wrapped up in...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, and what better way to celebrate than a look at the space law involved...

Once again, I attended the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) as part of the...

This post is on a topic that I have been mulling for some time now, but was prompted by the recent editorial in the Financial Times...

The second meeting of the second phase of The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group (hereafter ‘the Working...

The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen during the first week in October was the first time that I had attended an IAC....

This is, what I believe the ‘kids’ would call, a ‘hot take’[1] on the European Parliament’s Industry, Research, Telecoms and Energy...

Recently US Vice President Mike Pence reaffirmed the Trump Administration’s intention to establish a United States ‘space force’.[1] This...

Last month UNISPACE+50[1] was held at the United Nations in Vienna, it was, in part, a commemoration of the first United Nations...

The Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) was founded in 1999 as a result of the Third United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses...

Once again, I recently spent time as part of the SGAC delegation to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) Legal...

The first Monday afternoon of the annual session of the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS)...

Once again, I spent a few days in March in the heart of Paris listening to people talk about space law and doing some talking about space...

As with a number of space law terms, the space treaties do not provide a definition of outer space. While for the most part a...