Indicator that a country**

I find this and other work by Liboiron and CLEAR quite helpful on this!! civiclaboratory.nl/2021/01/03/c...

Unfortunately, that's not how UK journalism works if the story involves trans people. Groups like the Good Law Project put out news-story-like content bc reporters aren't reporting.

The Good Law Project does it well, and I fully trust their data - but in a better world it would be a news story.

Even more wild given that 'developing countries' is a term used repeatedly throughout lots of the legal and normative documents drafted by COPUOS.... As in, the Moon Agreement and the latter 4 Principles. 😬

I'm going to a conference on Friday about the Supreme Court's reliance on "history and tradition," and truly one of the many many problems with originalism is how it often flattens & distorts history, creating jurisprudence that reflects the history of domination but not the history of resistance

A lot of my work lately involves going through 150+ page PDFs, unfortunately!!

and the sequel: I HAVE ADHD do not make me go find my phone in the other room, i have surmounted biology and ongoing apocalypses to get into this productive state and if i get up I WILL GET DISTRACTED and never finish reading the thing i am trying to read right now.

THIS. I literally pulled up the latitutde math problem to my parents *last week*.

That's the rough springboard to natl laws applying in space. Eg US IP law covers US space objects; UK criminal law applies to UK spacecraft (SIA 2018 s.51), & natl employment laws likely apply to space personnel.

Also: Anne McClain was falsely accused of bank account fraud/ID theft under US law.

Not a stupid question! Jurisdiction is a huge topic, but states will have it over space objects/personnel by
a) registration (Art VIII OST),
b) special agreement (Art II.2 REG), eg ISS, or
c) general intl law on jurisdiction*
Likewise re: objects/personnel on the Moon (Art 12(1) MA).

*Long story

Finally, if we agree that as of now, the application of space law in the 'grey' altitudes (or per @kosmickris.bsky.social, 'ignorosphere') will be a functional question settled case by case, that also isn't unheard of, either in intl or domestic law. (Eg intl law also doesn't define 'environment').

(I admit I'm mostly avoiding the big open question. But this does potentially broaden the framing of this issue - and thus the constituency of people invested in resolving it - from space law to international law in general.)