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Professor Dr. Maureen Williams -PUBLICATIONS (books and others)

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PUBLICATIONS (books and others)

Professor Williams has published over 270 articles and book chapters on her specialised topics, both in Argentina and abroad (UK, USA, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Brazil, etc.), in specialised Journals, and book chapters (inter alia, INTERNATIONAL LAW IN JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVE, Liber Amicorum for Lord Slynn of Hadley, Chapter 6, Kluwer 2000, and DIMENSÃO INTERNATIONAL DO DIREITO, Libert Amicorum for Ambassador G.E. do Nascimento e Silva, Chapter 27, LTr, Sao Paulo 2000.
She is the author of the “Buenos Aires International Instrument on Damage caused by Space Debris” (66th ILA Conference, 1994), the “Revised Final Text of a Convention on Dispute Settlement related to Space Activities”(68th ILA Conference, 1998) and the “Report on the Review of Space Treaties in view of Commercial Space Activities – Concrete Proposals” (69th & 70th ILA Conference, London 2000 and New Delhi 2002, respectively) and "Legal Aspects of the Privatisation and Commercialisation of Space Activities - Remote Sensing" (71st ILA Conference, Berlin 2004). All of them have been published in the REPORTS OF THE CONFERENCES OF THE ILA, London, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004. All of them, as well, are being considered by the United Nations at the moment.

MAIN BOOKS PUBLISHED IN ARGENTINA (as a single author)

  • TELECOMUNICACIONES POR SATÉLITES, Abeledo-Perrot, Buenos Aires,1981.
  • DERECHO INTERNACIONAL CONTEMPORÁNEO, Abeledo-Perrot, Buenos Aires, 1990.
  • EL RIESGO AMBIENTAL Y SU REGULACIÓN. DERECHO INTERNACIONAL Y COMPARADO. LA CAPA DE OZONO Y LOS RESIDUOS ESPACIALES, Abeledo-Perrot, Buenos Aires, 1998.

MAIN BOOKS PUBLISHED ABROAD

  • REPORT OF THE 66th CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION, published in London in 1995. Co-editor of this book, together with Professor James Crawford, Wheewell Chair of International Law, Cambridge University.
  • AERONAUTICAL LAW, NIJHOFF, The Netherlands 1979. Author and interpreter of the English text of Professor Federico Videla Escalada’s treatise in 6 volumes, entitled DERECHO AERONÁUTICO, published by Zavalía in Argentina.

PLEASE NOTE: THE APPROXIMATELY 270 PUBLICATIONS MENTIONED ABOVE (ALL OF THEM AS AN INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR) HAVE APPEARED IN SPECIALISED JOURNALS IN ARGENTINA AND ABROAD, SUCH AS

  • International Relations (London, where she publishes regularly since 1975).
  • The International & Comparative Law Quarterly (London).
  • Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Oxford University Press (regularly since 1999).
  • Il Diritto Aereo (Roma).
  • Media of Journal Law and Practice (Glasgow, UK)
  • Revista del Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
  • Revista Jurídica de Buenos Aires (Ed. LA LEY), Buenos Aires.
  • Lecciones y Ensayos (idem).
  • LA LEY, S.A.
  • Proceedings of the International Colloquia on the Law of Outer Space (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, since 1969)
  • Reports of the Conferences of the International Law Association (since 1970).
  • The Space Law Journal (University of Mississippi).
  • The Netherlands International Law Review, Kluwer, Netherlands.
  • EL DERECHO, Buenos Aires.
  • German Journal of Air & Space Law (ZLW)
  • Enciclopedia Jurídica OMEBA, Buenos Aires.
  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PUBLIC INTERNATINAL LAW (Ed. Bernhardt), Max Planck Institute for Public International & Comparative Law, Heidelberg. Elsevier
  • Books by various authors, edited and published by the Law Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires.
  • Chapters of books, among which various Liber Amicorum to honour different personalities of international law.

BOOK CHAPTERS (the most recent)

LA COMERCIALIZACIÓN DE LAS ACTIVIDADES ESPACIALES, pp. 529-566, in Código de Comercio y normas complentarias. Análisis doctrinal y jurisprudencial (Raúl A. Etcheverry, director and Héctor O. Chomer, coord), Volume 1, Hammurabi 2005, José Luis Depalma editor. ISBN 950-741-215-8
SPACE LAW AND REMOTE SENSING ACTIVITIES, pp. 121-137, chapter DISSEMINATING AND DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL SPACE LAW: THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK 2005 (ST/SPACE/28). ISBN 92-1-100978-2
LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE PRIVATISATION AND COMMERCIALISATION OF SPACE ACTIVITES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO REMOTE SENSING AND NATIONAL SPACE LEGISLATION, 71st CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION, Space Law Committee, Report by the undersigned (Committee Chair) published in "Report of the 71st Conference of the ILA", Cambrian Printers, United Kingdom, 2005. ISSN: 0074-0738.
ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT, op. cit. in the previous paragraph, Final Report of the Committee, various authors (Dieter Fleck, E. Dahinden, Maureen Williams and others), pp. 488-527.
DERECHO ESPACIAL Y COMERCIALIZACIÓN: EN TORNO A LA INTERPRETACIÓN DE CIERTOS TÉRMINOS, pp 209-225,XXXI Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Derecho Aeronáutico y del Espacio, Barcelona, 2002, Fundación AENA, Barcelona 2004.
ACERCA DE LA BUENA FE EN EL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL PÚBLICO, pp. In "TRATADO DE LA BUENA FE" (Dir Marcos Córdoba), volume I, pp. 1017-1037, Edit La Ley, Bs. As. 2004. ISBN:987-03.0315-3
AVANCES Y DILEMAS EN EL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL DEL DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE, Colegio de Abogados de Buenos Aires, volume 64, July 2004.
OUTER SPACE (SPACE DEBRIS), Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Vol. XIII, Oxford University Press, pp. 338-340, 2003.
OUTER SPACE (SPACE DEBRIS), Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Vol. XII, Oxford University Press, pp. 290-293, 2002.
PERCEPTIONS ON THE DEFINITION OF A "LAUNCHING STATE" AND SPACE DEBRIS RISKS, pp. 280-286, Proceedings of the 45th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, Houston, United States, 2002, published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004. . ISBN: 1-56347-625-8
ON THE NEED TO REGULATE SPACE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, pp. 303-312, in "Proceedings of the 46th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space" (Bremen 2003), publ. by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington 2004.
ACTIVIDADES COMERCIALES EN EL ESPACIO: LA TELEOBSERVACIÓN DE LA TIERRA, 2003, publ. by Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Aeronáutico y del Espacio, Madrid.
FINAL REPORT TO THE 70TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION ON THE REVIEW OF THE SPACE TREATIES – CONCRETE PROPOSALS, New Delhi 2002, pp. 192-228 in "Report of the Seventieth Conference of the ILA" publ. by Cambrian Printers, United Kingdom 2003.
SPACE DEBRIS: THE ACADEMIC WORLD AND THE WORLD OF PRACTICAL AFFAIRS, in “Proceedings of the 44th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space” (Toulouse) pp. 326-337, publ. by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington 2002. ISBN: 1-56347-555-3.
THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW OF OUTER SPACE, in “Project 2001: Legal Framework for the Commercial Use of Outer Space”, publ. Carl Heymanns Verlag (Frankfurt, London, New York, Berlin) 2002.
LA CONFERENCIA UNISPACE III Y LA PROTECCIÓN DEL AMBIENTE, in HUMANISMO AMBIENTAL, Academia Nacional de Derecho y Cs. Sociales, Córdoba 2001.
ETHICS, SPACE ACTIVITIES AND THE LAW, in “Proceedings of the 43rd Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space” by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington 2001. ISBN: 1-56347-488-3.
DE LA NECESIDAD DE REVISAR EL CONVENIO DE RESPONSABILIDAD POR ACTIVIDADES ESPACIALES, in "Homenaje al Dr. Alvaro Bauzá Araujo", Ed. Fundación Aena, Madrid 2001.
OUTER SPACE: INTERNATIONAL COMMONS”, in Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Vol. XI, Oxford University Press 2001.
REFLECTIONS ON THE LAW OF TREATIES – CUSTOMARY LAW, DISPUTE SETTLEMENT, JUS COGENS, RESERVATIONS, pp. 537-558, Liber Amicorum in honour of Prof. Geraldo do Nascimento e Silva entitled “Dimensão Internacional do Direito”, (Coord. Paulo Borba Casella) Ed. LTr São Paulo 2000. ISBN: 85-7322-721-4.
INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE WAKE OF UNISPACE III, pp. 67-89, in JUDICIAL REVIEW IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, Vol. II (Liber Amicorum in Honour of Lord Slynn of Hadley), London, Kluwer Law International, 2000. ISBN: 90-411-1378-9.
REVIEW OF THE UN MAJOR SPACE INSTRUMENTS IN VIEW OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES, Report of the 69th Conference of the ILA, pp.571-603, London, ILA, 2000.
MAINTAINING THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT, Space Law in the XXI Century-Unispace III, United Nations 1999. LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN EN EL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL DE HOY, in “El Cuarto Poder” (Coord. Bidart Campos and Sandler), Buenos Aires, Ediar, 1999.
THE SPACE LAW COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION, in Space Activities of the United Nations and International Organizations, New York, United Nations, 1999.
SOLUCIÓN DE CONTROVERSIAS RELATIVAS A ACTIVIDADES ESPACIALES, XXIX Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Derecho Aeronáutico y del Espacio, Universidad de Panamá, pp. 177-191, Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Aeronáutico y del Espacio, 1999.
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT RELATED TO SPACE ACTIVITIES, Report of the 68th Conference of The ILA, Taipei, 1998.
FINAL DRAFT OF THE REVISED CONVENTION ON THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES RELATED TO SPACE ACTIVITIES, Report of the 68th Conference of The ILA, Taipei, 1998.
REPORT ON DISPUTE SETTLEMENT RELATED TO SPACE ACTIVITIES, Report of the 67th conference, ILA, Helsinki 1996, publ. in London in 1996.
REPORT TO THE 66TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION: THE BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT ON SPACE DEBRIS, Report of the Sixty-Sixth Conference, ILA, Bs. As., 1994.
LA CONTROVERSIA DEL OZONO, in "Evolución reciente del Derecho Ambiental Internacional", Ed. Z, Bs. As., 1993.

MAIN ARTICLES (1998-2005)

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION - INFORMATION ON ITS ACTIVITIES, United Nations 2005, Doc. A/AC.105/C.2/L.254, pp. 7-14.
SINGULAR DESAFÍO PARA EL DERECHO: LA OBSERVACIÓN DE LA TIERRA POR SATÉLITES Y SUS APLICACIONES, 2004, publ. by Ed. La Ley, Buenos Aires.
AVANCES Y DILEMAS EN EL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL DEL DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE, Revista del Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Vol. 64, N°1, July 2004.
RESPUESTAS DEL DERECHO AL TERRORISMO INTERNACIONAL DE HOY, LA LEY (doctrine), Vol. 2002-F.
THE INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION, “The International & Comparative Law Quarterly”, London, Vol. 51, N°2, Oxford University Press 2002.
THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION AND ITS SPACE LAW COMMITTEE, Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (United Nations) Doc. A/AC. 105/C 2/L 231, pp. 5-12, Vienna, 2002.
TERRORISMO Y CORTE PENAL INTERNACIONAL, Revista del Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Vol. 62 Nº 2, pp. 51-57, 2002.
REFLECTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ON REMOTE SENSING AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, en ZLW “Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht”, Vol. 50, N°3, Carl Heymanns Verlag 2001.
OBSERVANDO LA TIERRA DESDE EL ESPACIO A LA LUZ DEL PRINCIPIO DE SOBERANÍA, in Revista Brasileira de Direito Aeroespacial, Vol. 82, April 2001.
STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL SPACE LAW, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, London Vol. 48, pp. 238-241, 1999.
INTERNATIONAL SPACE LAW, International Relations, Vol. 14, pp. 72-73, 1999.
REFLEXIONES SOBRE EL LIBRO "STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL SPACE LAW" Revista Jurídica de Buenos Aires, pp. 277-283, 1999.
LOS DERECHOS INTELECTUALES ANTE EL AVANCE TECNOLÓGICO, La Ley, Buenos Aires, T. 1999-B, pp. 717-738, 1999.
DERECHO BRITÁNICO E INMUNIDAD SOBERANA, La Ley, Buenos Aires, Vol. 1998-F, pp. 1233-1236, 1998.

SOME RECENT ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

Derecho Internacional y Teleobservación de la Tierra, ElDial, Buenos Aires, 29th April 2005.

Reports to the 69th (2000), 70th (2002) and 71st (2004) Conferences of the International Law Association, Space Law Committee, and Arms Control and Disarmament Committee, www.ila-hq.org (click on "committees").

Copuos/Brazil Workshop on "Disseminating and Developing National and International Space Law: The Latin American and Caribbean Perspective", Rio de Janeiro, 21-25 November 2004, chapter on Space Law and Remote Sensing Activities, OOSA website.