December 2024
Seasonal Greetings
Dear IISL Members,The year is coming to an end and we would like to extend our heartfelt best wishes to all of you and wish you a successful 2025! Thank you for your interest and continued engagement and for making IISL successful and offering a valuable contribution to the space (law) world! As a special seasonal gift to all of you, we are very happy to share with you the link to our newest publication. Our esteemed member and Honorary Director of IISL Dr. Steven Doyle, in meticulous work, has written about the life and work, as well as his personal experience with Andrew G. Haley – one of the very first space lawyers. Enjoy this time travel to the early days of space law and the creation of the IISL, IAA, and IAF, in a well documented and fascinating account of a first hand witness! Click on the gift to open the ebook! With our best wishes, IISL PS. Please note that the date for the next IISL Happy Hour is Thursday, 30 January 2025 at 12:30 – 13:30 h CET.
Submission of the Working Group on the Future of the Moon Agreement to UN COPUOS
On 15 November 2024, the Working Group on the Future of the Moon Agreement submitted an answer to UNOOSA’s Invitation Circular OOSA/2024/43 CU 2024/221. The circular was distributed under the initiative of the Legal Subcommittee’s Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities, and invited Committee members and permanent observers to provide contributions on elements for an initial draft set of recommended principles for space resource activities. The Invitation Circular as well as the IISL Working Group on the Future of the Moon Agreement’s response can be viewed and downloaded below. More information on the Working Group is available on the dedicated IISL website of the Working Group.
IISL General Assembly in 1 hour!
Dear Members, The IISL General Assembly will take place virtually on 14 December at 13:00 h UTC / 14:00 Paris time. IISL Members in good standing have received by email a link to join the meeting and the agenda in the week before the meeting (Subject: IISL General Assembly Meeting; sent on 11 December 2024). Please find the agenda below. Kind regards, The IISL Team