An address to the Ninth Annual Cambridge International Law (CILJ) Conference in April 2020, in Panel 11: International Air and Space Law—Issues on the Horizon, by Ward Munters, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for International Law & Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium).
Full title: “Potentially Harmful Physical Interference: Towards a Structural Analysis of Individual and Public Interests in Orbital Space Law”
The Cambridge International Law Journal 9th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference on the theme of ‘International Law and Global Risks: Current Challenges in Theory and Practice‘ was held as an online webinar series due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/
In This Story: Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest.
It covers an area of 30,689 km2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of 376 per square kilometre (970/sq mi). The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven.
Legally, Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional and linguistic grounds. It is divided into three highly autonomous regions: the Flemish Region in the north, Wallonia in the south, and the Brussels-Capital Region.
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