书目名称 | Launching Space Objects: Issues of Liability and Future Prospects |
编辑 | Valérie Kayser |
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丛书名称 | Space Regulations Library |
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描述 | Launch activities performed by private entities deal with acomplex legal environment. The Space Treaties provide a generalliability framework. Launch participants are subject to regulatory orinstitutional control, and to domestic liability laws. Specificcontractual practice has developed due to insurance limitations, theinter-participants‘ waivers of liability and claims. .This book synthesizes information on the norms of play, to allow thegrasp of their relative weight and interactions in the assessment ofliability risk for launch activities. It reveals a legal frameworkpresently lacking sufficient predictability for an efficient liabilityrisk management: . .the waivers of liability sufferweaknesses as do all such clauses, and lack uniformity andreliability; and .the Space Treaties contain ambiguous termspreventing predictable determination of the States responsible forauthorizing and supervising launch activities and for damagecompensation, and do not reflect the liability of launch operators... This book offers suggestions of new approaches for: ..harmonizing waivers of liability to improve their consistency,validity and flow-down; and ..improving the Space Treaties fortheir imp |
出版日期 | Book 2001 |
关键词 | compensation; insurance limitation; launch activities; launching space objects; liability framework; liab |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48405-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-5840-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-0-306-48405-6Series ISSN 1572-6134 Series E-ISSN 2542-9558 |
issn_series | 1572-6134 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001 |