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Author Gupta, Biswanath, author

Title Liability for commercial outer space activities: : need for a legal framework in India / Biswanath Gupta
Published Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Laws and Legislation Ser
Laws and Legislation Ser
Contents Introduction to International Space Law -- Commercial Space Liability : Why it is Important -- Scientific and Technological Development of Space Research in India -- Law and Policy : Space Governance System in India -- Framing of National Space Legislation in India
Summary "The book responds to the dissonance between the increase of commercial outer space activities and the absence of any legal framework in India. While holding a great promise, international space law remains a stable principle that the launching country is liable for any damage caused by outer space activities. The quantity of risk increases more when outer space is used not only by the sovereign states but also by non-governmental entities for commercial benefit. Both the municipal and international law accepted that money damages should compensate the harm. Therefore, allocation of the liability must be shared by the actual wrong doer. State practices are developed for the allocation of liability with non-governmental entities. The argument attacks the substance and structure of space policy in India, undermining claims as to its effectiveness and even sustainability. In responding to these challenges, this book uses analytical and comparative methods with the dynamic processes such as interview (structured and unstructured) to address the central question of basis and fundamental framework of space law in India. The objective of the thesis is to develop a plausible normative framework in India relating to commercial outer space activities. This normative framework provides a platform for exiting international legal norm and practices, as well as the basis of alternative understanding of international space law and the potential response to those problems, which are coherent and consistent with the use of outer space commercially by any country. The book offers three inter related conclusions. First, it identifies the international legal norms as the basis for the development of national legal framework in India. Secondly, it demonstrates those state practices developed by space-advanced nations who adopted national space legislation for the promotion and control of commercial outer space activities, and provides a useful legal framework background for adoption of domestic legal framework in India. Thirdly, it develops a normative framework for the commercial outer space activities in India"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2017)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Space industrialization -- Law and legislation -- India
Liability for space vehicle accidents -- India
Liability for space vehicle accidents
Space industrialization -- Law and legislation
India
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020010767
ISBN 1536176885
9781536176889