Dallas Shareholder Steven Bartz authored the article “Reframe: A New Interpretive Framework for Non-Governmental Entity Responsibility in Outer Space,” published in the Journal of Air Law and Commerce.
The article proposes a reinterpretation of the text of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, commonly known as the “Outer Space Treaty,” which is widely considered the world’s foundational legal instrument governing human activities in outer space when conducted through nation-states (States). The proposed reinterpretation drastically narrows nation states’ responsibility, under public international law, for the activities of non-governmental entities (NGEs) in outer space. That reinterpretation should enable States to reduce their supervisory burden or otherwise tailor their supervisory role for the non-national activities of their NGEs’ in outer space in a manner consistent with such States’ own respective interests and agendas free of the need to ensure those NGEs’ “compliance” with the Outer Space Treaty and related public international law that is ill-suited to addressing NGEs’ non-national activities in outer space.
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