Handbook of Space Law

摘要

This is an impressive reference tool and a welcome addition to the field. Space law is an area with distinctive challenges of its own. It overlaps but is also separate from public international law; it is shifting from state to international collaboration; it is becoming more and more commercialized or privatized; it draws on trade and intellectual property and telecommunication (e.g. satellites and broadcasting) law; and the interpretation of legal frameworks (which have varying degrees of eligibility) is idiosyncratic, far from consensual and ever changing. As a result, a handbook that claims to be as comprehensive as this is particularly useful, above all for anyone studying or teaching space and telecommunications law, and for practitioners in areas of space activity (as here, in those interested in "space faring", from space stations to launch-service providers and customers, from resource insurance to space tourism).