The Cape Town Convention: Its Application to Space Assets and Relation to the Law of Outer Space (Studies in Space Law, 8)

This book explains the application of the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment to space assets, The Cape Town Convention, in a manner that is useful to lawyers engaged in satellite finance and to academics who desire to understand this treaty. "The UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment created a new international regime of secured finance applicable to aircraft and rolling stock that facilitates the financing of this equipment by, among other things, enabling lenders to create a readily enforceable security interest in the equipment. The Space Assets Protocol extends the benefits of the convention to satellites and other space assets. This book explains the operation of the convention in a manner that is useful both to lawyers engaged in satellite finance as well as to academics who desire to obtain a more complete understanding of this treaty. The book also explores the relationship between the convention and the existing body of space law"--Unedited summary from book cover