INTERNATIONAL LAW & SPACE LAW: COMPARISON WITH LAW OF SEAS
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This paper titled International law and Space law: Comparison with Law of Seas will be dealing with outer space activities and its effect on the mankind. Law of Space is comparatively a new field of law and is based on the United Nations treaties. But there are a lot of issues which hasn’t been resolved till date in Space law. One of the reasons being that, it is very flexible and there is continuous changing interpretation of the law. Due to the change of venture of space programs from government owned to private sector, there is bound to be challenges always which we need to resolve. As there is development in the technology, there has to be development in the law.
In this paper, the researcher will be firstly looking at the development in the Law of space and the various sources of it such as Outer Space Treaty, custom etc. Secondly, the comparison of The Space law and the Law of Seas, as no state can have sovereignty over the outer space and high seas and there is similarity between both the laws, though the emergence of Space law happened much later, it has imbibed ideas from the Law of Seas. Thirdly, the researcher will be looking at whether the outer space treaty is sufficient in this age of development in technology.
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