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41 J. Space L. 57 (2017)
Institutional Cost of International Space Law

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   INSTITUTIONAL COST OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE
                              LAW


                 S.G. Sreejith* & Yugank  Goyal**



  I. INTRODUCTION:  CONTEMPORANEITY IN INTERNATIONAL SPACE
                               LAW
     What  is the temporal and  intertemporal value of the percep-
tion that International Space  Law  (ISL) helps humanity   explore
and  exploit the terrestrial abundance  of Earth  and the  infinite
spaces beyond  it for itself and its progeny? One should keep in mind
before ruling on the temporal appropriateness  of the said proposi-
tion that in modernity, ISL has espoused the dialect of liberal mar-
kets. And  so, the explorations and exploitations discussed therein
have  as their goal optimal utilization of the consumer demand in a
market  under competitive conditions. Then again, what if the mar-
ket in question is a non-existing market and  competitive condi-
tions are fictional competitive conditions?1 After all, according to
some, space is a plenary extension of human micro-consciousness to
a spatio-temporal vastness where  the universal mind  of humanity
is found; space is in no way meant  to be commercially  exploited.
Whatever   the epistemological skepticism of space-idealists is, in
fact, the ISL has a rich body of knowledge that affirms that there is





     LL.B., M.B.L., (University of Kerala), M.Phil. (Jawaharlal Nehru University),
LL.D. (University of Lapland). Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Academic Affairs),
and Executive Director, Centre for International Legal Studies, Jindal Global Law
School, O.P. Jindal Global University.
   ** B.Tech. (Surat, India), LL.M. (Manchester), Ph.D. (Rotterdam, Bologna and Ham-
burg). Associate Professor, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal
Global University (JGU). Deputy Director, International Institute for Higher Education
Research and Capacity Building, JGU.
   I A non-existing market is a meta-space of empty representations. That is to say,
the animate object and the inanimate symbols there cannot be existentially quantified.


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