The EU Space Act: Internal Harmonisation and External Influence | by Güneş Ünüvar

My review of Charalampos Giannakopoulos' fantastic book, "Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration" (CUP 2022), has just been published in the European Journal of International Law @ejiltalk.bsky.social It is available here: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

Revising the manuscript of my new book so I have been looking at some earlier ISDS cases. Did you know that in Methanex v. US, Methanex essentially acknowledged the police powers doctrine? The application of the police powers was basically uncontentious. Epiphany...

In today's edition of "How to Misspell Güneş's name"

I sat down to talk to the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Bonn to discuss space law, space debris, the Moon Village Association, and my research on designating outer space as 'environment'. See more here (as well as the video): www.aia-nrw.org/en/exploring...

If you are going to explore outer space, why not do it in style? #prada #axiomspace #artemis (From the Moon Village Association Global Workshop and Symposium in Luxembourg)

Why not some Albus content?

Interviewed by @gazeteoksijen.bsky.social on the Luxembourgish space sector, how #Luxembourg emerged as a leader in space, and how it can serve as a source of inspirating for #Türkiye as an emerging space nation. The interview (in Turkish) is available here: gazeteoksijen.com/bilim-ve-tek...

I guess in the coming days and weeks we will get to see how far the US willing to go to dismantle and undermine the international legal order for the sake of Israel, and the answer frankly scares the hell out of me.

This character is one of the riders in the pod race in Phantom Menace and he’s called Elan Mak. That’s all. I don’t have a point. Just, you know…

Last Thursday, November 14th, Academy of International Affairs NRW (AIA NRW) hosted a fantastic Workshop entitled "To the Moon and Back: Lunar Policy-Making, Security, and Cooperation in Europe and Beyond" that Raúl González Muñoz (Uni. Leicester, AIA NRW) and I organized.

The Elephant Trunk Nebula, (IC1396) in the constellation Cepheus, 2-hour exposure on October 14, 2021, PixInsight + Gimp processing: (ED127 Apo f/7.5 + ASI533MC Pro + ZWO Duoband filter) #Astrophotography

Use in a sentence: "he's been clouding all night long after being added to the starter pack for 'mildly anxious overperforming non-tenured academics'"

I think we should call it a "cloud" to be honest

Uewersauer 10k. When I am not relentlessly rambling on about space law I run through Luxembourgish countryside

Chocolate baklava. I am both offended and fascinated.

My innocent angel of a dog after viciously barking at a loving 90-year-old lady and a speeding train.

We, all of us, need a Deutsche Bahn therapy group.

If Elon Musk buys this one as well I am going back to fax machine

Can someone throw my way their favorite International Law starter packs? Extra points if they are space law and economic law related.

I guess this place is coming back to life. Hi everyone!

At the Academy of International Affairs NRW (AIA NRW) in Bonn today for the Workshop I am organizing with Raúl González Muñoz (AIA NRW, Leicester Uni) "To the Moon and Back: Lunar Policy-Making, Security, and Cooperation in Europe and Beyond".

Does anyone have access to the following article on the geostationary orbit? I would be forever in your debt. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited about my second guest lecture at Peking University School of International Studies this Friday, (Dec. 15, 19.30 Beijing, 12.30 CET) on "Investing in Space Economy". It will be held online. Details of the talk via this link: www.sis.pku.edu.cn/message27/13...

Bazar International weekend in Luxembourg. Found this gem in the second hand books section. Currently working on a Star Trek TNG and international law-themed short article so this is literally the reference material I needed. 🪐

Today in 1957, Laika, one of the first animals in space, died in orbit. #USSR sent Laika, a stray dog from Moscow, into low orbit on November 3th. It is believed that she died hours into the flight due to overheating.

The one and only Lorenzo Cotula has joined BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/lcot...

So excited for you all to read the pieces for the @opiniojuris.bsky.social pop culture & int law symposium taking place next week! We have such a great lineup!!

⚠️ New article! "Vulnerability Theory as a Paradigm Shift in International Investment Law: Reimagining the Role of the State" (with the amazing Aysel Kücüksu) has just been published at #BHRJ and it is available open access: t.co/nR34CmMVcr 1

It was an absolute privilege to be in Ann Arbor, University of Michigan for the #UNCITRAL Working Group III Academic Forum Plenary Conference last week. So many great colleagues and fantastic presentations. Looking forward to the WGIII session next week in Vienna.

There is a lo-fi version of the entire lord of the rings soundtrack and this is the content that makes this decade bearable

Experimenting for a work in progress, I asked Midjourney AI to produce me images of "an arbitrator" and "a judge", separately. These were the only prompts, no further specification. It generated the following images.

So we just hang out here until it fizzles out or is bought by a billionaire? Cool