IISL convenes Working Groups on current issues of space law and space law development. These Working Groups are initiated by our members and membership of a working group is open to IISL members as well as in certain instances, to non-IISL members.
Find below information on our past and current Working Groups.
Reports of our Working Groups can be found under IISL Publications.
Current Working Groups
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Past Working Groups
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- IISL Board of Directors Fall Meeting held
The IISL Board of Directors held its Fall Meeting on 29 September 2025 during the 2025 IAC in Sydney, just ahead of the opening of its annual Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space. The meeting was chaired by IISL President Kai-Uwe Schrogl and prepared by Executive Secretary PJ Blount. - AI study presentation in Singapore
IISL’s study on “Legal Aspects of AI in Space” was presented by study leader Tuana Yazici at a workshop organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s office in Singapore. The framework for the workshop was the KAS programme on rule of law focussing on national space legislation with a comparative view - Impact of the IISL Working Group on Legal Aspects of AI in Space
In April 2024, the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) formally established the Working Group on Legal Aspects of AI in Space, chaired by Tuana Yazici, with Anne-Sophie Martin, Steven Wood, Lisa Kucher, Roser Almenar, Laura Yvonne Zielinski, Stefan-Michael Wedenig, and Giovanni Tricco. Over the - IISL publishes Report of IISL Working Group on Legal Aspects of AI in Space
More recent developments of a widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are affecting many areas of human life on Earth, as well as human activities in outer space. In April 2024, the Board of Directors of IISL agreed to form a new ‘Working Group on on Legal Aspects of AI - 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