July 2024
Academics at Durham Law School and St Andrews University launch global online survey on contact with extraterrestrial intelligence
The survey is available in four languages (English, German, French and Spanish), with additional invitations in Arabic and Chinese. For the invitations containing further information and the links to the survey see the link below.
Register for IISL Happy Hour #16
Dear IISL members, We hope you are having beautiful summer vacation. The 16th IISL Happy Hour will be held on 1 August 2024, 1230-1330 (could be extended 1400) CEST. For this occasion, An IISL member and former COPUOS/ LSC chair, Dr. Nomfuneko Majaja will talk on “Space & Law: a South African Perspective including African Capacity Building in Space Law”. She is CD Space Affairs; Africa Regional Coordinator: Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition. In order to receive the meeting link, please register using the link below.
2024 IISL Elections – voting period closed
The Voting Period for the IISL 2024 Elections is now closed and the links to the voting forms are disabled. We thank all members who took part in the elections! The Election Committee will publish the results of the elections soon.
REMINDER:Take part in the 2024 IISL Elections!
Voting in the 2024 IISL Board Elections opened on 15 June and will remain open until July 15, 23:59 CEST. Be sure to take part in our 2024 Elections! Voting is open to all individual and institutional IISL Members in good standing. You can find more information on the elections as well as the candidates’ profiles and the voting forms on our website at 2024 IISL ELECTIONS. Please note that there are two separate polls: the vote for IISL Vice-President and IISL Directors. Each one requires a separate confirmation of the vote via the “submit” button. You will also receive two separate emails to confirm your participation in the IISL Elections – one for your vote in the Vice-President Poll and one for your vote in the Directors Poll. Conformation emails are sent out manually and it can take up to 7 days to receive the confirmation email. Note to all members who have already voted in both Polls, Vice-President and Directors: please track in your inbox of your email address registered with IISL if you have received two separate confirmation emails confirming your participation in each of the two polls. If you have only received one confirmation email, but intended to vote in both Polls, one of your votes has not gone through and you can revisit our website to submit your vote in the missing Poll again. Please contact webmaster@iisl.space in case of technical difficulties and add this email address to your contacts so that our communications are not marked as spam by your email client. You can vote for the following positions: CLICK HERE TO FIND MORE INFORMATION HERE: IISL 2024 Elections
Call for participation in the IISL Working Group on the Future of the Moon Agreement
Dear Members, Prospective Members, and Friends of the International Institute for Space Law (IISL), We are pleased to invite you to participate in the newly established Working Group on the Future of the Moon Agreement. Working Group Overview In light of the ongoing efforts to set up a framework to govern the utilization of space resources as well as the plans to return to Moon, the Working Group on the Future of the Moon Agreement, under the auspices of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), aims at exploring the contribution that the Agreement can give to this process. Despite the limited number of States Parties to it, the Moon Agreement remains the only existing international treaty specifically designed to regulate human activities on a celestial body, hence it seems worth to reflect upon the lessons to be learned from its drafting history and provisions and its relevance in today’s space environment. You can find more details on the Working Group IISL page and the Call for participation below.