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PROFESSOR VLADIMÍR KOPAL PASSED AWAY
mining of minerals on celestial bodies. Mandl was a visionary; Kopal was a real space
law “pioneer”; so, it is only logical that the entire session of the 2014 International
Institute of the Law of Outer Space in Toronto was held under his name; until his
very last days he was still planning to participate…
Mahulena Hofmann
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Prof. JUDr. Mahulena Hofmann, CSc.
helds the SES Chair for Space Communication and Media
Law at the University of Luxembourg; she is former student and research assistant of Professor
Vladimír Kopal.