# The importance of space lawyers

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxVienna
- Speaker: Frans von der Dunk
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Astronomy and space, Law
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_von_der_dunk_the_importance_of_space_lawyers)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Who's liable if a passenger is injured on the first spacecraft to take tourists off-planet? For that matter, what's the legal definition of a spacecraft? Professor of space law Frans von der Dunk deploys lawyer jokes and policy critiques to illustrate how the world is woefully unprepared for the legal implications of space travel.

## Lectures

1. [The importance of space lawyers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/frans_von_der_dunk_the_importance_of_space_lawyers/bad7ac3231da), 17 min (TED's player)