Principles of Outer Space Law in Hindsight

This original book offers guidelines for the transition from the existing outer space regime, geared to space activities deployed exclusively by States, to a regime which also governs the commercial use of outer space resources by States as well as by non-governmental enterprise.

<p class=copymedium>The author meets the challenge of drafting new rules applicable to human activities in the still largely unknown environment of outer space by presenting the reader with a provocative review of the principles of space law as they were established in the sixties, culminating in the Space Treaty of 1967, followed by his own vision of the principles on which the future legal framework of outer space should be based.

<p class=copymedium>Written in the author's characteristic style, the book cannot fail to intrigue all those who are interested in space activities.

<p class=copymedium>Henri A. Wassenbergh is Professor of Law at Leiden University and Chairman of the Institute of Air and Space Law. He was Head of the KLM Foreign Relations Bureau for many years and has published extensively on Air and Space Law topics throughout a long and distinguished academic career.