Space Activities: Challenges to Safety and Security

Space is an important element of critical infrastructure to support the world economy, international trade and investment, strategic thinking, military strategy, national security, science, culture and, frankly, the future of humankind.
Given its pivotal role in the functioning of society worldwide, it is important that a governance framework for space exists that appropriately finds a balance between all of these perspectives.
This talk by Professor Steve Freeland will address some of the significant challenges to the applicability and further development of the legal regulation of outer space activities, particularly in the currently rapidly changing technological, geopolitical and commercial contexts