Goedhuis, Daniel Keywords: Airspace | Legal regime | Space | Space law | Mots clefs: Espace aérien | Régime juridique | Espace cosmique | ABSTRACT In his course on conflict of laws and divergencies in the legal regimes of air and space law, Daniel Goedhuis focuses on the following issues: he intends to make a comparative study of the legal status of airspace and outer space, the legal status of aircraft using both spaces, and legislative procedures used in both fields; presents the ways and means used to resolve or redu…

Lachs, Manfred Keywords: Space | Space law | Mots clefs: Droit cosmique | ABSTRACT Manfred Lachs presents in the introduction to his course a new dimension of international law: space law. He begins his course with a reminder of man's entry into space and the creation of the rules of law that it requires. He then examines the history of the first texts, the prohibition of national appropriation of space objects and the status of space, objects and persons (astronauts), the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of States, and the issue of telecommunications. Manfred Lachs présente e…

de La Pradelle, Paul Keywords: Sea | Space | Territory | Mots clefs: Espace maritime | Espace cosmique | Territoire | ABSTRACT Paul de La Pradelle, Honorary Professor at the Law School of Aix-Marseille, notes that territory-space conflicts, or territorial and spatial interests, concern complex situations to which actors and factors are difficult to find the solutions. In the introduction, the author recalls the fundamental principles generally accepted as being capable of establishing the respective definitions of th…

P. Zhukov, Guennady Keywords: Space | Development of international law | Space law | Mots clefs: Espace cosmique | Développement du droit international | Droit cosmique | ABSTRACT Guennady Zhukov, Professor at the Institute of the State and Law of Moscow, points out that international space law is formed and developed literally before our eyes, while international maritime law has been formed over several centuries and international air law has been formed over a few decades. The author successively focuses on the main the…

G. Marcoff, Marco Keywords: Space | Space law | Sources of law | Mots clefs: Espace cosmique | Droit cosmique | Sources | ABSTRACT Marco Marcoff explains in the introduction to his course that the formation of the customary rules of international space law during the pre-conventional stage of its elaboration as well as the quasi-conventional and quasi-legislative process established in the United Nations system suggestively show the contemporary tendencies affecting the process of creating international rules, and more…

Goedhuis, D. Keywords: Space | Borders | Delimitation | Mots clefs: Espace cosmique | Frontières | Délimitation | ABSTRACT In this course, Daniel Goedhuis, Professor at the University of Leiden, presents the main problems related to space and air law. After an introduction to the divergent interpretations of the legal regimes governing sky and space that came into force in the 1970s, and to various conventions in these fields, the author focuses on the delimitation of sky and space. Dans ce cours, Daniel Goedhuis, professeur à l'Université de Leyde, présente les principaux…

Gorove, Stephen Keywords: Space | Space law | Mots clefs: Espace cosmique | Droit de l'espace | ABSTRACT Stephen Gorove's course on international space law focuses on five major issues of international space law. He first studies the issues of the limit of sovereignty of the State and the limit of sovereign rights of the State in space. He then focuses on the resources of celestial bodies and the common heritage of mankind, control of arms in space, space transportation, and equitable access and space telecommunications. Le cours de Stephen Gorove sur le droit international de l'…