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The course evaluates the different phases of the development of space law against the background of the development of public international law. An analysis of current international space law investigates whether the body of law is ready for the challenges of outer space commercialisation and the rise of “New Space” in the 21st century. To accomplish this, it peruses through existing space law treaties, in particular the foundational Outer Space Treaty, as well as other sources of space law. Discovering that international space law developed as a permissive law that would enable the further evolution of space technology yet with sufficient foresight to understand that such evolution will require provisions for the preservation of the international common that is outer space, the author examines several avenues for the future evolution of space law. Among these, the author proposes several notions in order to preserve space law’s initial character as a law for the protection of the international commons of “outer space” on the one hand, and pay attention to an equitable distribution of the benefits derived from the resources of outer space on the other hand.

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Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Stephan Hobe is the director of the Institute of Air Law, Space Law and Cyber Law at the University of Cologne as well as co-director of the International Investment Law Centre Cologne. He is member of various scientific associations, inter alia the former President of the German Society of International Law, President of the German Association of International Law (German ILA) and Chair of the Space Law Committee of the International Law Association.

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