Dr Thomas Cheney

Assistant Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Non-Use of Space: Reconsidering Article I of the Outer Space Treaty and the Useability of Space Resources, Cheney, T. 18 Feb 2025, Non-use in International Law, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill
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

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