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Dr Thomas Cheney

Assistant Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

Thomas Cheney

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  • Common Heritage of Mankind, Cheney, T. 9 Jan 2025, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Space Law, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, Edward Elgar
  • Non-Use of Space: Reconsidering Article I of the Outer Space Treaty and the Useability of Space Resources, Cheney, T. 11 Jul 2025, Non-use Measures for Global Goods and Commons in International Law, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill
  • Planetary protection, Cheney, T. 25 Jun 2025, Elgar Encyclopedia of Space Policy and Governance, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, Edward Elgar
  • The Extra-Planetary Mine: Space Mining as Continuity, Cheney, T. 1 Aug 2024, In: Environment and History
  • Barriers and Gateways to Cleaning Up Earth Orbit: The Legal, Economic, and Political dimensions of Debris Remediation, Newman, C., Cheney, T. 1 Mar 2023, In: Air and Space Law
  • Centring Environmentalism in Space Governance: Interrogating Dominance and Authority Through a Critical Legal Geography of Outer Space, Marino, A., Cheney, T. 1 Feb 2023, In: Space Policy
  • Planetary Protection in the New Space Era: Science and Governance, Cheney, T., Newman, C., Olsson-francis, K., Steele, S., Pearson, V., Lee, S. 13 Nov 2020, In: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Managing the Resource Revolution: Space Law in the New Space Age, Cheney, T., Newman, C. 18 Jun 2018, Frontiers of Space Risk, Boca Raton, US, CRC Press

  • Nicole Green Beyond Metalaw: Bringing Extraterrestrial Life into the International Legal Order Start Date: 01/10/2025
  • Georgia Brown The Codes of Cosmic Conduct: Preparing for the Discovery of Microbial Extraterrestrial Life from a Legal and Ethical Perspective. Start Date: 01/10/2025


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