• Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute while standing beside the deployed United States flag during the Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Hadley-Apennine landing site. The flag was deployed toward the end of EVA-2. The Lunar Module (LM)

BLOG SERIES: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy – Echoes of Exploration: The Legal Aspects of Cultural Heritage Sites on the Moon

June 2nd, 2025|0 Comments

Lee Foley, Space Law LLM Student, Northumbria University https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-p-foley/  In 1959, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) Luna 2 spacecraft impacted the lunar surface, marking one of the greatest moments in human exploration history. Leaving Earth and arriving on [...]

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BlOG SERIES: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ through the lens of migration – Migrants and birth justice in the UK: why should we focus on the migration experience itself?

June 2nd, 2025|0 Comments

This blog is part of SLSA blog series ‘Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law’ through the lens of migration’ (Edited by Dr Simran Kalra and Dr Fanni Gyurko), which takes a socio-legal approach to migration related issues in a variety of [...]

  • This picture was taken just before dawn at the La Silla Observatory, in outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert. A layer of orange hovering over the horizon announces the imminent arrival of the Sun. These first hints of daylight are kissed by the Milky Way, which stretches out across the entire night sky. This view of our home galaxy is covered with dark patches, formed from dust particles blocking the light behind them. In front of this cosmic scenery you can see some of the observatory’s telescopes. The closest is the Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST), whose dish measures 15 metres across. It was decommissioned in 2003 and replaced by the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment telescope (APEX) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). On the plateau in the background stands the ESO 3.6-metre telescope, with the Coudé Auxiliary Telescope (CAT) right behind it. SEST seems to be pointing at an extremely bright object: This is Venus, one of our neighbouring planets. Venus is lit up by the Sun and outshines all of the stars in the night sky. The triangular white glow that reaches up from the horizon through Venus is called zodiacal light. Zodiacal light is sunlight scattered by dust in the ecliptic — the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

BLOG SERIES: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy – A Not-So Starry Night: The Socio-Legal Importance of a Dark Night Sky

May 15th, 2025|0 Comments

The Northumbria University Law School is home to an expert Space Law Team researching on current legal issues and challenges in Earth’s orbits, on celestial bodies, and across tech such as governance challenges regarding cybersecurity or the use of AI [...]

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BlOG SERIES: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ through the lens of migration – Moving Between Law: Lived Experiences of Informal Migrant Workers in India

May 15th, 2025|0 Comments

This blog is part of SLSA blog series ‘Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law’ through the lens of migration’ (Edited by Dr Fanni Gyurko and Dr Simran Kalra), which takes a socio-legal approach to migration related issues in a variety of [...]

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