Legal Responses to Space Resource Utilisation

Prof. (Dr.) Sandeepa Bhat is working as a Professor of Law, Dean - Post Graduate Studies, and the Director of the Centre for Aviation and Space Laws at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He has the teaching and research experience of over twenty-two years after completing his master’s degree with first rank and double gold medals in 2003. His seven Major Research Projects are sponsored by the World Bank, ISRO, the WB Judicial Academy, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Government of West Bengal. He holds the unique feat of being the first Indian to be inducted as the UNIDROIT Correspondent for India. He has been a member of four distinguished international bodies, including the American Society of International Law. Dr. Bhat has published thirteen books, nine of which are on aviation and space laws. In addition, he has published more than seventy articles in the journals of international and national repute. He also has the distinction of being a member of the Indian Space Research Organization’s Expert Group for drafting the National Space Act for India.Adithya Variath is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean at the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. Adithya was an Elizabeth Moir Scholar at the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, reading an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Before moving to Oxford, he served as an Assistant Professor of Law and founding Coordinator/Head of the Centre for Research in Air and Space Laws at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai. Adithya’s research focuses on space and aviation laws, emerging technologies, and global institutional design.

• Changing Legal Dimensions of Celestial Mining.- Space Diplomacy toward a legal regime for space resource activities on the Moon.- Mining the Sky.- Space Economy and Resource Mining A TWAIL Critique.- A Process-Oriented approach for managing outer space resources: Addressing Competition and Fragmentation.- The International Legality of the Appropriation of Space Resources Feasibility of Current and Future International Legal Developments.- ASEAN Member States Legislations pertaining to Outer Space Resource Mining.- Celestial Natural Resources and the Challenge of Governance: Time for an Outer Space Trusteeship Council.- Space Resource Utilisation in the 2023 Indian Space Policy: Examining Recent State Practice and Their Implications.- The Development of an International Legal Framework For Space Resource Activities.- The Role of Intellectual Property in Regulating Access to the Benefits of Space Mining.