Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, a researcher at the Institute of Criminology, together with co-authors Matthew Gillett and Katja Grunfeld, has published a monograph in which she examines different ways of establishing liability for space pollution by non-state (private) actors.
The existing space legislation, which was created during the Cold War and focuses on states due to the conditions at that time (state-centred model), currently does not provide adequate mechanisms for regulating the liability of private actors in space. In the monograph, the authors examine various legal options for regulating private actors in space and propose a new instrument that would allow for a more effective enforcement of their liability.
The monograph is particularly relevant today as non-state actors are the main players in the space race, with current and planned activities (space tourism, mining on celestial bodies, militarization of space, increase in satellite launches and thus emissions and space debris, etc.) certainly leading to some form of space pollution.
The entire monograph is freely accessible via link.
