Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lynbrook SJ | Judge: Nethmin Liyanage
Counterplan: The United States should enter into a prior and binding consultation with the International Court of Justice over ending commercial space exploration. The United Stats will implement the results of the consultation.
Unilateral space policy undermines international law – that hampers traffic management, debris remediation, transparency, and enforcement mechanisms
Goguichvili et al 10/1, Sophie Goguichvili is a Program Associate with the Science Technology and Innovation Program, working on space, cybersecurity, 5G, and artificial intelligence policy. She received her BA in International Studies from the School of International Service at American University. Alan Linenberger is a Master of International Affairs candidate at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM. Amber Gilette received a B.S.F.S from Georgetown University in International Politics, and interned at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center prior to her time with the Wilson Center, "The Global Legal Landscape of Space: Who Writes the Rules on the Final Frontier?," https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/global-legal-landscape-space-who-writes-rules-final-frontier AAli
The preference to develop domestic policies over international agreements reflects both the emerging value of
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which would legally mandate states to comply by mutually agreed-upon rules.
Advisory opinions from the ICJ are necessary to clarify and develop international space law
Simpson and Johnson 17 Michael Simpson, International Space University · Space Policy and Law; Business and Management, Chris Johnson is the Space Law Advisor at the Secure World Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on the sustainable uses of outer space. Christopher does research, writes, and speaks about international and national space law with a special focus on peaceful uses of outer space, emerging governance challenges with non-traditional space activities, and identifying and characterizing deficiencies in existing space law., September 2017, Lacunae and Silence in International Space Law – A Hypothetical Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice, ResearchGate, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320596144_Lacunae_and_Silence_in_International_Space_Law_-_A_Hypothetical_Advisory_Opinion_from_the_International_Court_of_Justice 12-16-2021 rohan (GOAT) we do not endorse ableist language
- lacunae = situation where there is no applicable law
non liquet = no answer
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to seek a political resolution with the compromises that was likely to entail.
International space legal regime are needed to solve space war --- malleable laws are key in outer space
Hart 21 Amalyah Hart, Amalyah Hart is a science journalist based in Melbourne, 11-19-2021, "Do we need new space law to prevent space war", Cosmos Magazine, https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/society/space-law-to-prevent-space-war/ simha
The week before last, a UN panel approved the creation of a working group
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optimistic. With a great deal of caution, cool heads will prevail.”
Otherwise, space conflicts go nuclear---both fast and probable
Laura Grego 15, a physicist in the Global Security program at UCS. She is an expert in space weapons and security; ballistic missile proliferation, and ballistic missile defense, "Preventing Space War", https://allthingsnuclear.org/lgrego/preventing-space-war
So says a very good New York Times editorial “Preventing a Space War”
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from the earth’s surface than the distance from Boston to Washington, DC.