Petr Polášek to speak on Space Law at Washington Arbitration Week 2025

White & Case Partner Petr Polášek will speak on the panel "Space Law in the New Space Age: Sovereignty, Resources, and Dispute Resolution" during Washington Arbitration Week 2025, hosted at ArentFox Schiff in Washington, D.C. The panel will explore the legal, political, and economic implications of space resource exploitation, with a focus on the Artemis Accords and their relationship to the Outer Space Treaty. Discussion will include ownership rights over extracted resources, liability for space activities, the role of private actors, and the future of dispute resolution beyond Earth. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/1yle50X6ShL #WAW2025 #InternationalArbitration #DisputeResolution #SpaceLaw#WhiteCase

White & Case Partner Petr Polášek will speak on the panel "Space Law in the New Space Age: Sovereignty, Resources, and Dispute Resolution" during Washington Arbitration Week 2025, hosted at ArentFox Schiff in Washington, D.C. The panel will explore the legal, political, and economic implications of space resource exploitation, with a focus on the Artemis Accords and their relationship to the Outer Space Treaty. Discussion will include ownership rights over extracted resources, liability for space activities, the role of private actors, and the future of dispute resolution beyond Earth. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/KrLo50X4rAF #WAW2025 #InternationalArbitration #DisputeResolution #SpaceLaw#WhiteCase

White & Case Partner Petr Polášek will speak on the panel "Space Law in the New Space Age: Sovereignty, Resources, and Dispute Resolution" during Washington Arbitration Week 2025, hosted at ArentFox Schiff in Washington, D.C. The panel will explore the legal, political, and economic implications of space resource exploitation, with a focus on the Artemis Accords and their relationship to the Outer Space Treaty. Discussion will include ownership rights over extracted resources, liability for space activities, the role of private actors, and the future of dispute resolution beyond Earth. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/ON5o50X4gE2 #WAW2025 #InternationalArbitration #DisputeResolution #SpaceLaw#WhiteCase

White & Case Partner Petr Polášek will speak on the panel "Space Law in the New Space Age: Sovereignty, Resources, and Dispute Resolution" during Washington Arbitration Week 2025, hosted at ArentFox Schiff in Washington, D.C. The panel will explore the legal, political, and economic implications of space resource exploitation, with a focus on the Artemis Accords and their relationship to the Outer Space Treaty. Discussion will include ownership rights over extracted resources, liability for space activities, the role of private actors, and the future of dispute resolution beyond Earth. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/AMhz50X6jXn #WAW2025 #InternationalArbitration #DisputeResolution #SpaceLaw#WhiteCase

United Nations Space Week's theme 'Living in Space' celebrates the scientific innovation, international law and collaboration that are shaping a new chapter in human history. UN Space Weeks runs from 4 to 10 October, marking two historic milestones: the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, and the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the foundation of international space law. Here are 5️⃣ facts:

As IAC was back in Australia this year so, too, was the International Institute of Space Law’s annual symposium on the law of outer space. I was proud to present International Aerospace Law & Policy Group’s research on a novel approach for patent law in space. The paper explores how the legal community can resolve the ambiguities of intellectual property in outer space in a way which streamlines the regulatory process all the while better incentivising development. How to do this? It begins by respecting the distinction between the universality of expressing ideas and the excludability of tangible artefacts. The paper shows how this Expression-Exclusion Divide promotes economic prosperity, individual rights, efficient governance and, not least, the principles under the Outer Space Treaty. A summary of the paper is linked below, including an outline of the several contradictions in current patent frameworks. If you have comments, or any solutions which may complement, or be more effective than, the Expression-Exclusion Divide, please reach out. https://lnkd.in/dXXZPZR8

The new booklet containing all the space law instruments developed under the auspices of the United Nations, from the Outer Space treaty to the Space debris mitigation guidelines and the Guidelines for the long-term sustainability of outer space activities, has recently been released. A must-have, prepared by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), for all those working on space law matters! #publicinternationallaw #spacelaw #outerspace

The UN has played a key role in shaping space law, ensuring outer space is used peacefully, promoting responsible exploration and preventing any country from claiming sovereignty. As technology advances, global cooperation is more important than ever. Learn more as World Space Week comes to an end: https://lnkd.in/ehdvZEuR

🚀 I had the honor of presenting our joint paper with Dr. Mohamed Amara, “Legal Challenges in Space Arbitration Arising from Increasing Military Involvement”, at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2025 in Sydney! 🌍✨ Our research showed that the growing integration of private space companies into security and defense architectures creates not only challenges for arbitration, but also highlights its role as a factor of resilience for commercial space activities in the context of political tensions. 🔑 Key conclusions: • ⚖️ Arbitration maintains relevance through neutrality, confidentiality, and flexibility, but its authority is undermined when sovereignty claims dominate. • 🛰️ The integration of commercial space assets into military architectures reinforces the likelihood that future arbitral proceedings will involve assessments of dual-use technologies. • 📜 Arbitration in space disputes should be capable of integrating public law considerations (security, sovereignty, humanitarian law) without losing its private law basis. • 🌐 The resilience of the space economy depends not only on technological redundancy but also on legal adaptability: arbitration must reconcile contractual predictability with sovereign issues to remain viable in the era of militarized space. A heartfelt thank you to my co-author Mohamed Amara for this rewarding collaboration! 🙏

The United States Space Force has awarded a $44.6 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Firm Fixed Price Phase III Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Agreement to Muon Space funding development and on-orbit prototype demonstration of a dual-use space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) capability...https://lnkd.in/dxCEPUFq