Promoting Productive Cooperation Between Space Lawyers and Engineers

Noted as an IGI Global Core Reference Title in Government & Law for 2019.

Anja Nakarada Pecujlic (University of Cologne, Germany) and Matteo Tugnoli (European Space Policy Institute, Austria)

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781522572565

ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522591610

EISBN13: 9781522572572

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7256-5

Description:

A major non-technical challenge of space activities is ensuring productive cooperation, communication, and understanding between the engineers who design the mission and the space lawyers who cover its relevant legal aspects. Though both groups usually attain some level of understanding, it is only achieved after many years of experience in the space industry and through repeated contact with topics relevant to their projects. A basic understanding of the most important legal and technical aspects acquired earlier in their careers can facilitate better cooperation and more efficient development of space projects.

Promoting Productive Cooperation Between Space Lawyers and Engineers is a pivotal reference source that provides vital insights into basic legal and technical topics and challenges that occur while planning and conducting typical space activities. The book uses high-profile space missions as examples and highlights the major technical aspects of these missions and the legal issues applied to these missions. While highlighting topics such as planetary settlements, policy perspectives, and suborbital spaceflight, this publication is ideally designed for lawyers, engineers, academicians, students, and professionals.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Active Debris Removal
International Space Station
Megaconstellations
On-Orbit Servicing
Planetary Settlements
Policy Perspectives
Resource Utilization
Space Launchers
Space Programs
Suborbital Spaceflight

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Anja Nakarada Pecujlic is a PhD candidate and assistant researcher at the University of Cologne, where she is writing her thesis on space law. In addition, since December 2017 she is the Project Manager for a European Space Agency (ESA)/Cologne University joint project: “ESA Convention Commentary”. Prior to that, from 2014 to 2016, she was an External Consultant to the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna. From 2009 until 2014 she studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna, where she specialised in international law, with her main focus being international space law. She subsequently continued to conduct space legal research and participated as a speaker in several international conferences. She has served as a judge in the Asia-Pacific round of the prestigious Manfred Lachs Moot Court competition since 2014. Finally, she founded “Serbian Case for Space Foundation” in Belgrade, Serbia with the aim to engage Serbia in the space domain.

Matteo Tugnoli is a Senior Research Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna. Prior to joining ESPI, he worked as Trainee in the Relations with Member States Department, Director’s General Cabinet, of the European Space Agency (ESA HQ) in Paris, France. He started his space career as Research Assistant at the Institute for Radioastronomy, National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Bologna, Italy. Matteo has a Bachelor of Science in Astronomy and a Master of Science in Astrophysics and Cosmology, from the University of Bologna, Italy. He also has a Master in Space Policies and Institutions from the Italian Society for International Organizations (SIOI) and Italian Space Agency (ASI) in Rome, Italy.

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