Who Owns the Moon? : Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9135-3
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This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the celestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership. In lay terms, it aims to find an answer to the question "Who owns the Moon?" After critically analyzing and dismantling with legal arguments the trivial issue of sale of extraterrestrial real estate, the book addresses the apparent silence of the law in the field of landed property in outer space, scrutinizing whether the factual situation on the extraterrestrial realms calls for legal regulations. The legal status of asteroids and the relationship between appropriation under international law and civil law appropriation are duly examined, as well as different property patterns – such as the commons regime, the Common Heritage of the Mankind, and the Frontier paradigm.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, International Space Law, Moon Agreement, Outer Space Treaty, Property rights, Space Activities, Space Law, extraterrestial, mining the moon, moon treaty, ownership, resources
