id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
blsr-13759	Gleason, Louis	Law in the Final Frontier: Ambiguities and Clarity in the Legal Regime of Outer Space	2021	31	.pdf	application/pdf	9831	503	49	The chief problem with extending Article 22 of the IGA to govern all of outer space, embedding it in the foundations of space law, is that it fails to effectively govern the interactions between nationals of different states. The Intergovernmental Agreement, or IGA (known officially as the Agreement Among the Government of Canada, Governments of Member States of the European Space Agency, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Government of the United States of America Concerning Cooperation on the Civil International Space Station) is the treaty that governs space law specifically aboard the ISS.31 Article 22 of the IGA addresses legal jurisdiction, with Section 1 establishing active personality32 as the default jurisdiction in criminal matters, holding that all states with nationals aboard the ISS “may exercise criminal jurisdiction over personnel in or on any flight element who are their respective nationals.”33	cache/blsr-13759.pdf	txt/blsr-13759.txt