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güneş ünüvar 🛸
@gunuvar.bsky.social
Mostly space law and policy, international economic law, and dachshunds

Senior Researcher @ Luxembourg Centre for European Law (uni.lu)

Legal Advisor @ Moon Village Association

Managing Editor @ Journal of World Investment & Trade

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The EU Space Act: Internal Harmonisation and External Influence | by Güneş Ünüvar
The EU Space Act: Internal Harmonisation and External Influence
On 25 June 2025, the European Commission unveiled its long-anticipated proposal for an EU Space Act. This draft Regulation arrives after years of preparatory work, discussions, and multiple delays. It...
www.ejiltalk.org
July 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
My review of Charalampos Giannakopoulos' fantastic book, "Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration" (CUP 2022), has just been published in the European Journal of International Law @ejiltalk.bsky.social

It is available here: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
Güneş Ünüvar, Review of Charalampos Giannakopoulos. Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration
Legal systems are built upon abstract concepts that are notoriously difficult to generally define. It is unsurprising that some of the most cutting-edge is
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March 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Revising the manuscript of my new book so I have been looking at some earlier ISDS cases. Did you know that in Methanex v. US, Methanex essentially acknowledged the police powers doctrine? The application of the police powers was basically uncontentious. Epiphany...
January 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In today's edition of "How to Misspell Güneş's name"
December 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I sat down to talk to the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Bonn to discuss space law, space debris, the Moon Village Association, and my research on designating outer space as 'environment'. See more here (as well as the video):

www.aia-nrw.org/en/exploring...
Exploring the Final Frontier: Space as an Environment and the Challenges Ahead – Academy of International Affairs NRW
www.aia-nrw.org
December 5, 2024 at 10:44 AM
If you are going to explore outer space, why not do it in style? #prada #axiomspace #artemis
(From the Moon Village Association Global Workshop and Symposium in Luxembourg)
December 2, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Why not some Albus content?
November 26, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Interviewed by @gazeteoksijen.bsky.social on the Luxembourgish space sector, how #Luxembourg emerged as a leader in space, and how it can serve as a source of inspirating for #Türkiye as an emerging space nation.

The interview (in Turkish) is available here: gazeteoksijen.com/bilim-ve-tek...
Üsküdar kadar nüfusu olan ülke nasıl uzayın hakimi oldu? 'Türkiye seçimini yapıp Lüksemburg'u örnek almalı'
Gazete Oksijen
gazeteoksijen.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:56 PM
I guess in the coming days and weeks we will get to see how far the US willing to go to dismantle and undermine the international legal order for the sake of Israel, and the answer frankly scares the hell out of me.
November 21, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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This character is one of the riders in the pod race in Phantom Menace and he’s called Elan Mak. That’s all. I don’t have a point. Just, you know…
November 20, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Last Thursday, November 14th, Academy of International Affairs NRW (AIA NRW) hosted a fantastic Workshop entitled "To the Moon and Back: Lunar Policy-Making, Security, and Cooperation in Europe and Beyond" that Raúl González Muñoz (Uni. Leicester, AIA NRW) and I organized.
November 19, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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The Elephant Trunk Nebula, (IC1396) in the constellation Cepheus, 2-hour exposure on October 14, 2021, PixInsight + Gimp processing:
(ED127 Apo f/7.5 + ASI533MC Pro + ZWO Duoband filter)
#Astrophotography
November 17, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Use in a sentence: "he's been clouding all night long after being added to the starter pack for 'mildly anxious overperforming non-tenured academics'"
I think we should call it a "cloud" to be honest
There has been a discussion what to call a post on Bluesky. Obviously not a "tweet", and "skeet" would be kind of wierd. I just failed to post and got the message below. Should it be named a "blob"?
November 17, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I think we should call it a "cloud" to be honest
There has been a discussion what to call a post on Bluesky. Obviously not a "tweet", and "skeet" would be kind of wierd. I just failed to post and got the message below. Should it be named a "blob"?
November 17, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Uewersauer 10k. When I am not relentlessly rambling on about space law I run through Luxembourgish countryside
November 17, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Chocolate baklava. I am both offended and fascinated.
November 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM
My innocent angel of a dog after viciously barking at a loving 90-year-old lady and a speeding train.
November 15, 2024 at 10:45 AM
We, all of us, need a Deutsche Bahn therapy group.
November 14, 2024 at 4:13 PM
If Elon Musk buys this one as well I am going back to fax machine
November 14, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Can someone throw my way their favorite International Law starter packs? Extra points if they are space law and economic law related.
November 14, 2024 at 11:07 AM
I guess this place is coming back to life. Hi everyone!
November 14, 2024 at 9:03 AM
At the Academy of International Affairs NRW (AIA NRW) in Bonn today for the Workshop I am organizing with Raúl González Muñoz (AIA NRW, Leicester Uni) "To the Moon and Back: Lunar Policy-Making, Security, and Cooperation in Europe and Beyond".
November 14, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Does anyone have access to the following article on the geostationary orbit? I would be forever in your debt.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Very excited about my second guest lecture at
Peking University School of International Studies this Friday, (Dec. 15, 19.30 Beijing, 12.30 CET) on "Investing in Space Economy". It will be held online.

Details of the talk via this link: www.sis.pku.edu.cn/message27/13...
December 11, 2023 at 9:11 AM
Bazar International weekend in Luxembourg. Found this gem in the second hand books section. Currently working on a Star Trek TNG and international law-themed short article so this is literally the reference material I needed. 🪐
November 26, 2023 at 2:50 PM