E7.1 Trajectory Towards a Common Understanding - A Multi-Continental Next-Generational Perspective on the Rule of Law in Outer Space
Symposium: E7. IISL COLLOQUIUM ON THE LAW OF OUTER SPACE
Session: 1. Young Scholars Session with Keynote Lecture
Day: Monday 02.10.2023
Time: 15:15
Room: HAC Hall B
Joan CHESONI
Principal State Counsel, Office of the Attorney-General, Department of Justice
Kenya
Viva DADWAL
Associate, King & Spalding LLP
Canada
The IISL’s 15th Nandasiri Jasentuliyana Keynote Lecture on Space Law (2023) highlights a key mission of the IISL: the expansion of the rule of law in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes. The keynote lecture explores the role that the rule of law holds under international and national space law from the angle of the five regions of the IISL Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition: Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America; with the five authors of the keynote lecture each representing one region. Regional understandings as well as historical development of conceptions of the rule of law in outer space are highlighted. The keynote lecture pronounces on how the rule of law can advance the (peaceful) use of outer space by focusing on its commonalities across the globe.