Nivedita S Presents at “New Horizons in Air and Space Law: Treaties, Technologies, and Tomorrow’s Challenges” Conference 2024
Research Fellow Nivedita S participated in a two-day conference on emerging legal and policy issues around air and space navigation from 1-2 August 2024 at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The conference, titled “New Horizons in Air and Space Law: Treaties, Technologies, and Tomorrow’s Challenges”, was a collaborative effort organised by the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business and the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law, both of the Faculty of Law, NUS, together with the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University in Canada.
Nivedita was part of a panel on Legal Challenges for Planetary Space Activities on 1 August 2024, where she presented on “Tackling Legal Frontiers: Nuclear Material in Space & Regime Interaction”. Given the potential for nuclear power to support space exploration and use and that the governance of the use of nuclear material in space is a cross-cutting area that cuts across two specialised regimes of international law – Space Law and Nuclear Law, Nivedita’s presentation examined how the two regimes interact with each other in context of two specific issues: (1) protection of the outer space environment; and (2) protection of the outer space from nuclear proliferation through the application of nuclear safeguards.
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