However, as Committee of Space Research is an independent organization without any legal mandate the Planetary Protection Policy is an example of so-called “soft law” or a non-binding international instrument, in short, no one is under any legal obligation to comply with them. The Policy is produced by a group of scientific experts and subsequently enjoys high regard among the scientific and space community. 3Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria Law School, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United KingdomĬommittee of Space Research’s Planetary Protection Policy is a triumph of technocratic governance in the global sphere.2Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University Law School, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.1AstrobiologyOU, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Thomas Cheney 1,2*, Christopher Newman 1,3, Karen Olsson-Francis 1, Scott Steele 1,2, Victoria Pearson 1 and Simon Lee 1,2
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