Journal articles
A UNIVERSE FOR ALL: ON THE EQUITABLE SHARING OF BENEFITS OF SPACE RESOURCES
R. Cardellini Leipertz
SMD. 2025;(1):97-103
This paper explores the pressing need to address the equitable benefit sharing from space resources in light of the growing commercial space industry. It examines both hard and soft law instruments, relevant concepts like the Common Heritage of Mankind and global commons, to then look into the interpretations of benefit-sharing as per the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space’s workings and their challenges. This research proposes several potential solutions and highlights the need to focus on soft law instruments as the best tool to withstand the current global geopolitical instability, identifying this as the best, if not only, tool to create an equitable, non-discriminatory and sustainable framework for space activities, aligning with the animus of international space law.
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