By adapting maritime precedents, space law could make orbital debris removal feasible, once the right economic incentives are in place.
Many in the rocketry business are pigeonholed in such highly specialized fields as astronautical engineering, space policy, or space law.
The Outer Space Treaty, a 1967 agreement that forms the basis of international space law, has been signed by every major power on Earth.
Widely considered the "Magna Carta of space law, " this treaty lays down the fundamental principle of non-appropriation and that the exploration and use of space shall be the province of all mankind.
"At some point the world community needs to come together and draft some new convention or treaty, " said Paul Dempsey, director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and McGill University in Montreal.
At least according to a source quoted by National Geographic, namely the International Institute of Space Law, that treaty does indeed apply to private citizens as well as the countries they live in.
James Dunstan practices space and technology law at Garvey Schubert Barer.
For example, instead of needing vast amounts of office space, Axiom Law, the largest and fastest growing provider of managed legal services to Fortune 500 companies, has a virtual workforce of over 900 attorneys.
"What I would say and I would ask of everyone is we give law enforcement the space to do their work, " Patrick said.
At the same time, none of the nearly two dozen financial, insurance and law firms seeking space that his firm tracks are looking to expand, and many are shrinking.
Unlike Steed, whose space buff sister-in-law called her outside that morning, she was getting ready for a relative's baby shower and didn't see the breakup.
The rules for the daily deal offerings for Groupon and Living Social and the 500 or so other sites in this space are not exactly codified into law (at least not yet) but there are certain rules that people just understand as applying.
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The TransMilenio rapid bus transit offers secure bicycle storage near major terminals, and it is law that parking lots must include space for bicycles.
The Obama Administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.
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Almost half of the office space will be used by Reed Smith, a law firm.
Well, if they wanted to vote from the space station, they can, thanks to a Texas law that passed in 1997.
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What this means for Israel is that the political and legal space has to be found to speedily embark on the law enforcement equivalent of a counterinsurgency operation.
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In January, the administration invoked a nonproliferation law to stop the European Defense, Aerospace and Space Company (EADS) from selling its C-295 troop transport aircraft to Caracas, citing the planes' many American-made components.
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Congress overwhelmingly agreed, and I was recently able to sign into law legislation that calls for extending the life of the space station for at least another 10 years.
Her brother-in-law, also an astronaut, is currently aboard the International Space Station.
Making ever more complex and power-hungry processors to obey Moore's Law just limits how many chips you can fit in a given space, he said.
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In 2010, Prudential and SJP landed the biggest tenant yet at 11 Times Square: law firm Proskauer Rose LLP leased about one-third of the space.
In 1998, Brazil's Congress approved a law allowing the air force to shoot down planes that enter Brazilian air space illegally.
Although cleared by one court - held under sharia or Islamic law - in the nearby emirate of Ras-al-Khaimah, she has been tried for a second time, under civil law, on charges of possessing 50g cocaine found hidden in the roof space of her flat.
Broadcastify streams around 3, 500 scanner channels, including local law enforcement, fire departments, weather service, emergency medical services and the International Space Station.
Australian researchers watched what happened when a small law firm and a stockbroking and research company moved into a 5 Green Star-rated space in their current building in Melbourne.
Boies often works out of his hotel room, but he also goes over to a local law firm, where upwards of 20 lawyers for Gore have set up shop in a space designed for five.
Capano says the deposit law in his state places too much of the burden of recycling on grocers, who have to provide space and machines to take the bottles back.
Still, the mother will have to carve out some space in her work schedule and environment and that get more complicated as the child gets older, no matter what law is in place.
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