Process of Liability Principles in International Space Law

The international system proposed the liability convention 1972 for compensating damages occurred while utilizing space. However, certain key principles of liability such as some rules of conflict law and jurisdictions have been neglected there. This convention failed to provide a unified regime like that of established by the Warsaw system for air carrier liability against passengers and cargo. Because of this failure and due to the international nature of space activities, during the past two decades, states inclined toward bilateral and multilateral space agreements for determining liability and compensating probable damages. In this paper it is argued that international law system is capable of finding common points in the said agreements and taking a new step toward uniformity of international regulations of space liability by modifying the convention 1972.