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Space Law: What More is Needed in the New Space Era?

Speaker: Professor Benedict Kingsbury, Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University School of Law

September 17, 2025
12:00 pm-1:30 pm

A&O Shearman LLP

599 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY

National laws such as the US Space Resource and Utilization Act (2015), bilateral agreements, and non-binding international agreements such as the Artemis Accords (2019-) have been a major force in law development since the first era of UN space law treatymaking ended in the 1970s. Vast thickets of contracts, government procurement requirements, inter-company standards, national regulatory litigation, and the first few international arbitral proceedings build up the detail. Are these legal arrangements going to prove sufficient to cope with the rapid intensification and diversification of space activity and participants – still heavily funded by public money, and impacting major public and environmental interests? Join Professor Kingsbury for a discussion focused on commercial launch, the earth-satellite economy, and Moon-to-Mars development. Questions on all aspects of space law are welcome.