Abstract
Can international space law be considered cosmopolitan? This core question of the following chapter was laid out at the beginning of its drafting. A key presupposition would say that if international law is setting up a regime between states, it cannot be.
However, as cosmopolitan theory generally says that cosmopolitan rights can be achieved when we deconstruct the main illegitimate political entities (states enclosed within their borders) and begin treating all humans as humankind, as a single community with equal rights, we have to say that space has no drawn borders and is res communis omnium - "a thing of the (entire) community." This very quick analysis finally inspired us to proceed into a debate that - to our knowledge - is significantly understudied