IISL News

Our newsletter for September and October 2020 is now available. Highlights include: News and Announcements In Memoriam  IISL Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Virtual World Finals 2020 – Results IISL Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Virtual Semi-Finals 2020 – Results A ‘Demonstration’ Virtual Round for the IISL Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition  IISL@China Space Conference 2020 and Joint Symposium on Maintaining the Rule of Law in Outer Space in an Age of Rapid Read more…

IISL President Kai-Uwe Schrogl gave a SpaceWatchGL interview concerning the Artemis Accords. The interview can be accessed here.

Ambassador (Professor) Aldo Armando COCCA: A Space Law Pioneer beyond the skies (1924-2020) In Memoriam.

The 71st International Astronautical Congress opened today. Watch the welcome remark of IISL President Kai-Uwe Schrogl here:

It is so difficult to accept that professor Luboš Perek left us at the age of 101 – we were so accustomed to having his sharp comments and a friendly smile around us! After Vladimír Kopal, another prominent Czech expert in space and space law is leaving our rows. Luboš Perek was born in June 1919 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After having attended a classical gymnasium in Prague, three generations of his ancestors working as lawyers Read more…

A “List of Weblinks to Works on Space Law of IISL Members” is available to all IISL Members. To access the list, log in with your credentials into the IISL website: http://members.iislweb.space/ and thereafter open the following link: https://members.iislweb.space/works-on-space-law/ The list will be updated once per year. Members are welcome to send their weblinks to Martha Mejía-Kaiser at marthamejiak@aol.com

Our newsletter for July and August 2020 is now available. Highlights include: News and Announcements Update on IAC 2020  The 2021 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition problem Latin America permanently becomes 5th region in the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition Member News To read the newsletter, please visit here. If you have items for the newsletter, please contact the editorial team of the IISL. Did you get our newsletter last month? If not, sign Read more…

At the occasion of his retirement from the post of APSCO Secretary General, Dr. Li Xinjun addressed a letter of farewell to IISL, which can be downloaded here.

The International Institute of Space Law (“IISL”) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that by unanimous vote, it has approved Latin America as its 5th Region. Latin America joins the North American, European, Asia Pacific and African Regions. Regional winners receive financial support to attend the World Finals. The IISL’s Lachs competition is particularly distinguished by the tradition of judges of the International Court of Justice presiding over and judging the World Final. The Read more…

The International Institute of Space Law is delighted to announce that the problem for the 2021 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition has now been released and is published on the Institute’s website (please see here). The case between the (fictional) States of Proclivia and Asteria involves the activities of ‘mega’-constellations of small satellites, the use of autonomous space operations, and the impacts of a collision between space objects on the freedom of scientific Read more…