Common Heritage, not Common Law: The Legal Regulation of Natural Resource Exploitation in Outer Space

This presentation will be a brief run-down of historical developments in international space law, the reasons why international law-making is now difficult and the challenges this poses in the face of rapidly expanding technology, an analysis of how the existing framework anticipates the management of natural resource exploitation in outer space, a reconciliation of (seemingly inconsistent) relevant principles regarding celestial body exploitation, the implications of recent national law developments, and a suggestion for the most appropriate path forward.https://commons.und.edu/ss-colloquium/1069/thumbnail.jp