Tournament: JanFeb | Round: 2 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
Interpretation: Appropriation is defined as making sovereign claims over underlying land.
Wrench 2019 ~John G. Wrench, JD Candidate Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2019, "Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining", Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law Vol 51. Issue 1, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil ~ Cary Academy SM and Liberty MS – Recut Triumph Debate
The non-appropriation doctrine restricts parties from making sovereign claims over underlying land—
AND
, those rules could graft onto the uniqueness of outer space resource extraction.