The Environmental Othering of Outer Space under International Law

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Outer space is critical to our daily lives in countless invisible ways - but space is not protectedby the same environmental rules that applies on Earth. Space lawyers tend to conclude thatspace is not part of 'the environment', based on a common interpretation of the four core spacetreaties, especially Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty. This legal conclusion rests upon certainhistorical presumptions that are rarely considered in their own right. By assessing environmentallaw in space by reference to history, this thesis will explicate these presumptions, reassessingthe environmental status of space from the ground up.