Common Law

To begin with it is important to understand that for a society to function there needs to be a set of rules managing the various aspects of governance, business and the society in general as societies could not exist without such rules.

Our history has shown us that businesses and governments usually seek to stake their claim on new found resources and territories, and space will be no different. The development of a common law may be our only way to avoid chaos out there and on Earth.

Currently, there are numerous treaties and agreements loosely defined as Space Law and are the body of law governing space-related activities, encompassing both international and domestic agreements, rules, and principles. Parameters of space law include space exploration, liability for damage, weapons use, rescue efforts, environmental preservation, information sharing, new technologies, and ethics. Other fields of law, such as administrative law, intellectual property law, arms control law, insurance law, environmental law, criminal law, and commercial law, are also integrated within space law. 

The unfortunate part of collaborative space law is there are players that have also chosen or are attempting to circumvent these laws by attempting to apply their own nationalistic and business oriented laws to an area they do not own. Such nationalistic attempts or attempts by businesses to procure nationalistic support for their own benefits are simply not going to happen peacefully. 

Lawyers and others trying to write space law need to avoid such nationalistic or business centric influences and the colonial model I have previously proposed in this blog provides the framework for that to happen. 

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