By Frans Von Der Dunk, Fabio Tronchetti
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- Mahulena Hofmann, including Andreas Loukakis and Simona Spassova, SES Chair in satellite tv for pc communique and Media legislations, collage of Luxembourg
The Handbook of house Law addresses the felony and regulatory points of actions in outer area and significant area functions from a accomplished and based viewpoint. It essentially addresses the dichotomy among the state-oriented personality of foreign house legislations and the expanding commercialization and privatization of area activities.
The booklet specializes in foreign house legislations within the broadest experience of the notice, not just together with the UN-based house treaties and foreign accepted (space) legislations, but in addition the various really expert regimes akin to these acceptable to the foreign satellite tv for pc companies, the foreign area Station, the overseas exchange and the security-sensitive points of area expertise exports, the financing of house ventures and environmental matters. the newness of this holistic method of house legislations particularly comprises the profound and ever-increasing commercialization of house actions and the attendant involvement of the non-public quarter in such actions. This authoritative booklet therefore provides a different normal paintings of reference for someone drawn to learning or getting to know the felony and regulatory facets of area actions and their significant purposes in depth.
providing the main accomplished and holistic research on criminal and regulatory facets of house actions and significant area functions so far this Handbook may be of specific curiosity to scholars in house legislations greater schooling, public foreign legislation, researchers (including JSD and PhD scholars) of area legislation and practitioners within the significant sectors of area activities.
Contributors include: C. Doldirina, C. Gaubert, P. Jankowitsch, I. Marboe, R.L. Schweickart, C. Sharpe, L.J. Smith, M. Sundahl, F. Tronchetti, P. van Fenema, L. Viikari, F. von der Dunk, M. Williams
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This becomes even more obvious when one considers that none of the treaties and agreements mentioned above is specifically and exclusively directed at arms control in space but contains such provisions rather as a by-product of other concepts. An analysis of this body of law will also have to focus on the philosophy and motivations that lie behind these provisions. Here again it appears difficult to identify a unifying concept. As pointed out above, some elements of these provisions suggest that there may indeed have been some effort towards the concept of a fully demilitarized ‘sanctuary’, moving well beyond terrestrial concepts of arms control, deterrence or military balance.
62 On 13 December 2001 US President George W. Bush notified Russia of the US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty in accordance with the clause that required six months’ notice before terminating the agreement. President Bush stated that ‘I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government’s ability to develop ways to protect our people from future terrorist or rogue state missile attacks’; cf. _s=PM:ALLPOLITICS, last accessed 2 January 2014. The US withdrawal took effect from June 2002. 63 Cf. 4.
The fact that today – with one exception – the majority of outer space treaties are accepted by a large number of states also testifies to this. 48 In both cases there are also numerous additional signatory states and international organizations accepting rights and obligations deriving from them. 49 The importance of the legislative work of the Committee and particularly its Legal Sub-Committee was also underlined by the fact that its proceedings were recorded verbatim until 1985, a privilege only enjoyed by such important organs of the General Assembly as its First Committee and of course the Assembly itself.