Outerspace treaties and liabilities

Outerspace treaties and liabilities

A special lecture on "Outer Space Treaties and Liabilities" was organized for the students. The Speaker of the session was Dr. Malay Adhikari, Assistant Professor, SRM University. He is an eminent academician and hold a PHD in space law from JNU, Delhi. The speaker discussed about the origin and development of space programmes all over the world especially in India. He demarcated the space law into cold and hot base on the commercial exploitation. He highlighted the importance of non- anthropocentric activities in space law. He explained about the difference between absolute and simple liability for state parties in respect to the claims involving the objects launched into outerspace. The interactive session was concluded with discussion on dispute settlement, claims commission and current developments in Space law.