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🚀 OGEL Call for Papers: Special Issue on Space Mining: National and International Regulation for and against Commercial Mining of Outer Space Resources https://lnkd.in/eyHk24Et The rapid evolution of commercial space activities has placed unprecedented pressure on international norms regarding the use and exploitation of outer space resources. With corporations, particularly those from the United States, pushing ahead with space mining ventures, significant questions arise over governance, regulation, and the protection of the common heritage of mankind. We propose a timely and crucial Special Issue in the OGEL Energy Law Journal dedicated to examining the legal, ethical, and geopolitical dimensions of space mining activities occurring outside of established multilateral regulatory frameworks. This issue will focus on the arguments for and against the mining of natural resources based on space bodies and planets. It will particularly interrogate the resistance to unilateral space mining efforts and consider how the international community, including scholars, diplomats, and states, can mobilize to preserve a more equitable and regulated approach. Focus Areas: This special issue invites empirical, sociolegal and critical legal analysis around the topic including the following core topics: 1. Emerging Space Mining Law and Practice 2. Key Actors and Initiatives in Space Mining 3. Organized Resistance and Advocacy 4. Intellectual and Diplomatic Strategies to Counter Commercial Exploitation 5. Dispute Resolution 6. Environmental and sustainability issues arising from space mining operations: 7. Mineral resources and Energy sources that are found in space 8. Analogies and lessons from sustainable and profitable terrestrial mining operations Proposals should be submitted to the editors Prof. Gbenga Oduntan, Prof. Engobo Emeseh, Dr. Alan Reid, and Motolani Fadahunsi-banjo, contact details on the OGEL website. Article guidelines available upon request: [email protected] 👉 Follow our Linkedin page for daily updates https://lnkd.in/efME2AXk

WTO members considered the following regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the 18 March meeting of the Committee on RTAs: the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement between China and Nicaragua, and the Free Trade Agreement between China and Cambodia. The Committee elected Ambassador José Valencia of Ecuador as the new Chairperson at the close of the meeting.

Colombia deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on 19 March. Ambassador Mauricio Alberto Bustamante García presented Colombia's instrument of acceptance to Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

👉 OGEL Special Issues: 1️⃣ Contractual, Legal, and Regulatory Dynamics for Hydrogen Projects and Markets https://lnkd.in/eSJcymY2 2️⃣ The Hydrogen Economy https://lnkd.in/gSfMgCE 👇 

Nearly 14 years after the Government of India (GOI) and Reliance Industries (RIL) locked horns over the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin gas extraction contract, hearings and arguments have begun in India in the arbitration matter with regard to the recovery of cost. "GOI's claim is related inter-alia to the cost of unproduced gas, excess amount spent on over-engineering, extra amount recovered on account of marketing margin, interest etc," GOI told BW in response to its email query. However, no response was received on the query about the amount it was seeking to recover from RIL. But sources say, the GOI claim could run in billions of dollars. 👉 TDM Law Journal Special on Int'l #Commercial and #Investment #Disputes in and with #India - free excerpt https://lnkd.in/g9ewjQt

👉 OGEL Law Journal Special Issue on Carbon Neutral Energy - free excerpt https://lnkd.in/evUPMDHS

👉 TDM Law Journal Special Issue on The Future of Investment Law in Latin America; El Futuro del Derecho de las Inversiones en América Latina - free excerpt https://lnkd.in/eaWCH8Ge