This book offers a compendium of diverse essays on emerging legal issues in outer space, written by experts in the field of Space Law from different parts of the globe. The book comprehensively addresses opportunities in space and the inevitable legal challenges that these space activities pose for mankind. It explores the increasing role of private sector in outer space, which calls for a review of policy and legislation; invites opinio juris from law scholars for ensuring the applicability of the Outer Space Treaty on all states without ratification and universal abidance with Space Law without demur; reflects upon the challenges for the global space community involved in implementing a more effective approach to international space governance; and considers the use of domestic laws, and the consequent need for legal reform, to encourage broader engagement with commercial space innovation. Further, the book delves into the adequacy of existing international liability regime to protect space tourists in the event of a space vehicle accidents; examines the increasing use of space for military activities and canvasses how International Law may apply to condition behaviour; highlights the challenges of scavenging space debris; calls for protections of space assets; touches upon the legal regime pertaining to ASAT and discusses other ways of creating normative instruments, which also come from other areas and use other methods. Given its comprehensive coverage of opportunities in space and the inevitable legal challenges that they pose, the book offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, academics and professionals including government officials, industry executives, specialists, and lawyers, helping them understand essential contemporary issues and developments in Space Law.

This book offers a compendium of diverse essays on emerging legal issues in outer space, written by experts in the field of Space Law from different parts of the globe. The book comprehensively addresses opportunities in space and the inevitable legal challenges that these space activities pose for mankind. It explores the increasing role of private sector in outer space, which calls for a review of policy and legislation; invites opinio juris from law scholars for ensuring the applicability of the Outer Space Treaty on all states without ratification and universal abidance with Space Law without demur; reflects upon the challenges for the global space community involved in implementing a more effective approach to international space governance; and considers the use of domestic laws, and the consequent need for legal reform, to encourage broader engagement with commercial space innovation. Further, the book delves into the adequacy of existing international liability regime to protect space tourists in the event of a space vehicle accidents; examines the increasing use of space for military activities and canvasses how International Law may apply to condition behaviour; highlights the challenges of scavenging space debris; calls for protections of space assets; touches upon the legal regime pertaining to ASAT and discusses other ways of creating normative instruments, which also come from other areas and use other methods. Given its comprehensive coverage of opportunities in space and the inevitable legal challenges that they pose, the book offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, academics and professionals including government officials, industry executives, specialists, and lawyers, helping them understand essential contemporary issues and developments in Space Law.

About This Book Customize and extend the jBPM tools to integrate them into your existing solution/technology architecture Understand the core components of jBPM, including topics such as KIE API, RuntimeManager, KieSession, and KieBase Follow real-world illustrations that will help you achieve objectives using screenshots and code snippets Who This Book Is ForIf you are a designer or developer who wants to build and operate business process-centric applications, then this book is for you. Knowledge of the basic concepts of application development in Java will be helpful in following the concepts covered in the book, but is not necessary.

Dasaratha's Son is the story of a first born son's struggle to live up to his scholarly father's high expectations and to fulfil his childhood promise to his depressive mother. Raghu's long journey from a small village in rural India to eventual success in the industrial world is marked by his compulsive need to respect the traditions of a Brahmin family even as he struggled to keep his siblings together in the face of changing social norms and eroding family values. The story chronicles little known aspects of life in post-Independence India, highlights the complex relationships in a traditional Hindu joint-family and provides a behind-the-scenes view of the cloistered life of taboos and rituals into which children of orthodox Brahmins were born. It lays bare the stark realities of the life of most Tamil-speaking Brahmins of India, whose only wealth is their 'upper caste' status. The paradox of Hinduism with its stifling social practices as against the anchor provided by its basic enduring human values is subtly brought out in the story. Dasaratha's Son adds a new dimension to the Indian concept of Karma through the life cycle of the 'big brother' and sheds light on 'Relationship as a maya' - a virtual concept - created, sustained and destroyed in the mind akin to the concept of Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, anchored in the Absolute Brahmam. Written in first person, in a cryptic style, it is full of wit, keen observation and a gentle acerbity that can be provocative in places. It carries a vision of an'Olimayamana Ethirkalam' which is almost a Tamil equivalent for Dickens' title - The Great Expectations. It also provides an antithesis of the typical image of an IITian built up by the media as a successful NRI techie- here is a man staying back in India, fighting it out and coming out with success.