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New perspectives for the making of space law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town approach compared with traditional UNCOPUOS law-making
Thesis (LLD (Public Law))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/91903 New perspectives for the making of space law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town approach compared with traditional UNCOPUOS law-making Hobe, Stephan theunis.kotze@skao.int Kotze, Theunis Jacobus UCTD Treaty UNCOPUOS UNIDROIT Private International Law International Space Law Space Assets Protocol Cape Town Convention Law articles SDG-09 Law articles SDG-16 Law articles SDG-17 Thesis (LLD (Public Law))--University of Pretoria, 2022. The United Nations Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN and UNCOPUOS) drafted the five outer space treaties in little more than a decade and thereby created a completely new specialisation in international law. This of course happened when states and state agencies were the only participants in the use and exploration of outer space. Since then, new non-governmental actors have entered the space market, aspects of which were privatized and commercialized. Yet, despite the pressing need for international legislation, UNCOPUOS since 1979 has proved incapable of producing another treaty on space law. The author examined why the UNCOPUOS, established to make international law of outer space, stopped making outer space treaties, and how did the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Institute International pour l’unification du Droit Privé or UNIDROIT), a non-UN entity established to unify private law, created with its 2012 Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Space Assets (Space Protocol) what is allegedly the first outer space treaty in (then) 32 years. The UNCOPUOS system of public international law treaty-making is compared with the UNIDROIT private international law one; and the question as to whether UNIDROIT has created a new method of treaty-making, is addressed. The conclusions are that a functioning space law regime exists, hard law is preferable to non-binding soft law, UNCOPUOS cannot produce any further outer space treaties, the Space Protocol can only form part of space law if one accepts a fourth stage of development of space law as part of a redefining of space law sensu lato, UNIDROIT’s Cape Town Approach is more suitable to modern space law treaty-making, and treaty-drafting is a special art of the international lawyer. rz2025 Public Law LLD (Public Law) Unrestricted SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals 2023-08-14T10:25:45Z 2023-08-14T10:25:45Z 2023-04 2022 Thesis Kotze, TK 2022, New Perspectives for the Making of Space Law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town Approach compared with Traditional UNCOPUOS Law-Making, LLD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria viewed yymmdd http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91903 A2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91903 en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Treaty UNCOPUOS UNIDROIT Private International Law International Space Law Space Assets Protocol Cape Town Convention Law articles SDG-09 Law articles SDG-16 Law articles SDG-17 New perspectives for the making of space law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town approach compared with traditional UNCOPUOS law-making |
| title | New perspectives for the making of space law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town approach compared with traditional UNCOPUOS law-making |
| title_full | New perspectives for the making of space law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town approach compared with traditional UNCOPUOS law-making |
| title_fullStr | New perspectives for the making of space law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town approach compared with traditional UNCOPUOS law-making |
| title_full_unstemmed | New perspectives for the making of space law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town approach compared with traditional UNCOPUOS law-making |
| title_short | New perspectives for the making of space law : UNIDROIT’s Cape Town approach compared with traditional UNCOPUOS law-making |
| title_sort | new perspectives for the making of space law unidroit s cape town approach compared with traditional uncopuos law making |
| topic | UCTD Treaty UNCOPUOS UNIDROIT Private International Law International Space Law Space Assets Protocol Cape Town Convention Law articles SDG-09 Law articles SDG-16 Law articles SDG-17 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91903 |