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Grokspace
In the model of Groklaw, the leading legal blog for the open source community, this dynamic Institute project will offer:
- A high-quality blog on space law and policy issues
- A public forum for the discussion of such issues among members
of space-interested legal profession, the traditional aerospace
industry, the entrepreneurial space community, the frontier movement
and the general public
- A virtual library that not only brings together the wealth of
existing but scattered resources on such issues, but also allows users
both to add new content and to add value to content through comment
& discussion
We encourage participation in Grokspace to help define the
needs we seek to meet. The Institute has already created Grokspace
sub-projects in order to
focus the community on some important and fairly immediate goals:
The
single greatest impediment to the commercial space industry, as well as
the U.S. government’s space program, is the current export control
regime governing space technologies. Intended to promote national
security by reducing the proliferation of technologies with potential
military applications, these controls have severely damaged our
long-term national security by undermining our technological
pre-eminence and stifling our space industry. We will propose reforms
that allow the space industry to reach for the frontier while enhancing national security.
Despite considerable scholarship, scant consensus has been built on key questions:
- What current international law allows
- How to measure the economic effectiveness of competing proposals in achieving the ultimate goal of opening the frontier
- Strategies for implementing effective property rights in the near-, medium- and long- terms
By bringing together disparate efforts in a single marketplace of
ideas, we will maximize the strength of the case for private property
in space, the breadth and depth of support and the effectiveness of the
regime in opening the frontier.
We
will create the first community specifically for lawyers practicing in,
and interested in, the space industry, allowing members to:
- Network
- Discuss space-related legal topics and cases
- Participate in working groups on key issues
- Receive requests for space-related pro bono legal aid
- Provide information about themselves, their practice areas & expertise in a public directory
We invite any lawyer interested to sign up now as we prepare to launch the core functionalities of the network.
Upcoming Events
We will present two panels at the Space Frontier Conference in Los Angeles, October. 21-23, 2005:
- International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
- Space Property Rights
Please subscribe to our announcement list to receive notice of other future events.
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