In the media
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Interview with Tanja Masson-Zwaan on the ESA website 20 September 2021
The European Space Agency (ESA) introduces the members of the European Center for Space Law (ECSL) on its website through interviews with its members....
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan: 'Rules in space are to everyone’s advantage' 15 June 2021
Space is of enormous strategic value. Having rules in space therefore is to everyone’s advantage.
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Steven Truxal on aviation incident with Belarus 28 May 2021
Government leaders have been searching for words to condemn the actions of Belarus which intercepted a passenger aircraft flying from Athens to Vilniu...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan: Still no obligation to clear up space debris 30 April 2021
Space travel has long since progressed from being just about rockets, travelling to the moon, and Russia and America. The Netherlands has its own Spac...
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‘Space Court’ United Arab Emirates: ambitious, but not new 12 February 2021
The United Arab Emirates has announced that it is to open a so-called ‘Space Court’ which will operate as an arbitral tribunal for space-related dispu...
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Vaccination certificate: opposition and doubts 08 February 2021
The Health Council of the Netherlands has published an advisory report entitled ‘Ethische en juridische overwegingen Covid-19’ (Covid-19: ethical and ...
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Tanja Masson: Huge changes in space law 18 September 2020
For years now, collaboration has been the operative word when it comes to successful space missions. But this can only be achieved with good agreements.
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan: we will need multilateral discussion 14 September 2020
NASA is offering to buy lunar samples collected by companies for a token sum primarily to set a precedent for space resource rights on the moon. Howev...
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'No surprise that aviation sector is appealing to government in the corona crisis' 13 March 2020
The aviation sector is now fully aware of the major impact of the corona crisis. Airline companies are appealing to governments for help.
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Tanja Masson: who owns the moon? 22 July 2019
The moon exerts a pull on us. The Americans won the space race and were first to land there. In the Universiteit van Nederland, space law expert Tanja...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan in Scientific American 28 June 2019
This week an article was published in the American popular science magazine Scientific American on the uncertainty surrounding the extent to which ter...
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More and more waste in space: who’s going to clear up? 01 April 2019
We are launching more and more satellites and space is filling up as a result. Currently around 100 million pieces of space debris are floating around...
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Tanja Masson in Een Vandaag over militaire ruimtemacht van Trump 20 June 2018
“Het is niet genoeg dat Amerika aanwezig is in de ruimte. Amerika moet domineren”, zegt Donald Trump tijdens een bijeenkomst met de Nationale Ruimtera...
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International Advisory Board welcomes Judge Peter Tomka of the International Court of Justice as its new Chairman 23 November 2017
The International Institute of Air and Space Law is very proud to announce that Judge Peter Tomka has accepted the position of chairman of its Interna...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan discusses Space Mining on BBC Radio 20 April 2017
Tanja Masson-Zwaan, an assistant professor at the Institute of Air and Space Law, spoke on Friday 14 April about space mining on BBC Radio.