From empty to over-congested airports: Schiphol’s passenger compensation scheme Until very recently passengers were missing flights due to closed borders or positive COVID tests. Now, passengers might miss their flights, not due to pandemic measures, but due to poor airport management and labour practices. Tuvana Aras • November 08, 2022
Travel chaos at Schiphol: The need for tripartite dialogue Travel chaos at Schiphol is one of the post-pandemic labour challenges to the aviation industry and this disaster will continue till the end of March 2023. What solutions do lawyers have? Yuran Shi • November 07, 2022
Turbulence in the air and space industry: EU sanctions against Russia Airspace closures and export restrictions are reshaping relations between the EU and Russia. Consequences are not limited to the aerospace industry of each party: is there a new ‘iron curtain’ in the sky? Mario Barbano • April 29, 2022
Satellites: Our eyes in the battlefield Satellites help us see the Earth from space, when we cannot observe it otherwise. We should give them some credit. Dimitra Stefoudi • April 06, 2022
Sustainability in space Space is becoming more contested, congested, competitive, and contaminated. How to ensure the long-term sustainability of space activities, so present and future generations can use and explore it indefinitely? Tanja Masson-Zwaan • January 19, 2021 • 2 comments
Impact of an asteroid on Earth: the need for legal clarifications Scientists believe that the fall of a destructive asteroid on Earth is not entirely unlikely. If so, what would be the means of defence available to States in order to comply with international law? Aniela Barug, Konstantinos Andritsos, Siti Jamaldin and Jacomo Restellini • June 08, 2020 • 1 comment
Artemis Accords: Star Trek or Star Wars? Ownership of space resources is contentious under international space law. Is the move by the US to gather international cooperation on this issue a viable solution? Mini Gupta, Wataru Inagaki, Pallavi Mund, Alif Nurfakhri Muhammad and Scott Schneider • June 04, 2020
Newspace for Global Benefit Finding the balance between international law and international business to enhance the capabilities of young space states for global benefit. Scott Schneider • March 30, 2020
50 years of Space Law: The 1967 Outer Space Treaty The Outer Space Treaty, as it is most commonly known, celebrates this year five decades in existence and offers a reason to reflect on the development of international space law in the past half-century. Dimitra Stefoudi • December 20, 2017 • 1 comment
