Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I The Problems of Modern Technology and International Law: Views from the bench: thoughts on science, technology and world law, Manfred Lachs (1992). Part II The Development of Space Law: International law and activities in space, C. Wilfred Jenks (1956); Legal problems of outer space, Alex Meyer; Fundamental questions of outer space law, John Cobb Cooper (1961). Part III Sources of Space Law: Consensus decision-making by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Eilene Galloway (1979); The role of United Nations Declarations of Principles in the progressive development of space law, Vladimir Kopal (1988); UN General Assembly resolutions and outer space law, Andrei D. Terekhov (1997); Custom as a source of international law of outer space, Vladlen S. Vereshchetin and Gennady M. Danilenko (1985). Part IV The Boundary Question: The question of defining outer space, Vladimir Kopal (1980).

Part V The UN Space Treaties: The evolution of the Outer Space Treaty, Paul G. Dembling and Daniel M. Arons (1967); Legal aspects of outer space: recent developments, J.F. McMahon (1965); The treaty on rescue and return of astronauts and space objects, Paul G. Dembling and Daniel M. Arons (1967); International liability for damage caused by space objects, Carl Q. Christol (1980); Change of ownership, change of registry? which objects to register, what data to be furnished, when and until when?, Kay-Uwe Hörl and Julian Hermida (2003); The 1979 Moon Agreement: where is it today?, Carl Q.

Christol (1999). Part VI Space Law in Application: Space debris and international law, N. Jasentuliyana (1998); Launching spacecraft from the sea and the outer space treaty: the sea launch project, Armel Kerrest (1998); Future protocol on security interests in space assets, Paul B. Larsen (2002); Space for rent: the international telecommunications union, space law, and orbit/spectrum leasing, Jannat C. Thompson (1996); On the privatisation of INTELSAT, Francis Lyall (2000); Liability for global navigation satellite services: a comparative analysis of GPS and Galileo, Frans G. von der Dunk (2004); Cultural lag and the international law of remote sensing, Susan M. Jackson (1997); Space technology and international cooperation - the role of intellectual property, A.M.

Balsano (1995); Law of armed conflict (LOAC) and the neutralisation of satellites or ius in bello satellitis, Michel Bourbonnière (2004); Using extraterrestial resources under the moon agreement of 1979, Stephen E. Doyle (1998); Metalaw and relations with intelligent beings revisited, P.M. Sterns (2004); Name index.