Commercial and Military Uses of Outer Space

Dr. Melissa de Zwart is Professor and Dean of Law at The University of Adelaide. She has a keen interest in the intersection between law and technology. Prior to joining academia, she was the Manager, Legal Services, CSIRO, where she advised on protection and commercialisation of technology. Her areas of research focus primarily on digital technology, as it interacts with culture, human behaviour and new areas of innovation. She has published widely on copyright, social media, surveillance, popular culture, the internet and outer space. She is a Board Member of the Space Industry Association of Australia, a member of the International Institute of Space Law, Co-Editor of the Woomera Manual on the International Law Applicable to Military Space Operations and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. In 2015 she was the Team Leader of the AdelaideX Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security MOOC which has attracted over 40,000 students globally.Dr. Stacey Henderson is Lecturer of Law at The University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on the protective capacity of law, including international law generally, responsibility of States and governance of outer space and space technology. Dr. Henderson is a participant in the Woomera Manual project ,which aims to develop a Manual that objectively articulates and clarifies the existing international law applicable to military space operations.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Whose space? A critical approach for increasing public engagement with the Australian space sector.- 3. The Next Frontier of the Global Commons.- 4. Space Security in the United States: Women in the Room.- 5. Rules of the Domain:  The Impact of Law on the Evolution of Space Activities and Technologies.- 6. To the Moon and Beyond: the Artemis Accords and the evolution of space law.- 7. The Case for Space Arms Control.- 8. Space Dispute Resolution Mechanisms.- 9. Connecting diverse data to address emerging space sector challenges.- 10. Space debris, space situational awareness and cultural heritage management in Earth orbit.- 11. Changing Space Security Dynamics and Governance Debates.- 12. The Province of all Humankind: A Feminist Analysis of Space Law.