The importance of space lawyers

Name: The importance of space lawyers
Uploaded: 2016-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 16 min
Description: Who's liable if a passenger is injured on the first spacecraft to take tourists off-planet? For that matter, what's the legal definition of a spacecraft? Professor of space law Frans von der Dunk deploys lawyer jokes and policy critiques to illustrate how the world is woefully unprepared for the legal implications of space travel.

TEDxVienna 2016Oct 201616 min18706 views

Speaker

Frans von der DunkSpace Law Professor | Securing the Final Frontier

About this talk

Who's liable if a passenger is injured on the first spacecraft to take tourists off-planet? For that matter, what's the legal definition of a spacecraft? Professor of space law Frans von der Dunk deploys lawyer jokes and policy critiques to illustrate how the world is woefully unprepared for the legal implications of space travel.