Professor Lucien Rapp
Science Director
Lucien Rapp is a university "agrégé" of Law and a professor at Toulouse 1 Capitol University. As an expert in the aerospace sector for many years, he ranks consistently among the best specialists worldwide in space and communications law (Band 1)
He is a member of several international learned societies (including the International Institute for Space Law) and is the author of 10 books and more than a hundred scientific papers, especially on the law of space communications
In his capacity as an expert on legal issues relating to telecommunications he was a member of the High-Level Group of Experts, chaired by Mr Paul Champsaur and set up by Mr Francois Fillon, Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Space, to draft the provisions of the future act of 26 July 1996 to regulate telecommunications in preparation for the opening to competition on January 1st, 1998 of the French telecommunications market (interconnection charges, funding for a universal service, regulating local networks);
Director of the French-language Study Center at The Hague Academy of International Law, whose summer session was devoted to "The international implications of global communications";
Member of the high-level group of experts brought together by the Commission of the European Union on the Galileo project;
Chairman of the working group on space telecommunications, set up by the Ministry of Research and Space, with a view to drawing up a French space law.
Member of the "space law" working group within the French Council of State, responsible for drafting the law relating to space operations (Act No.2008-518 of 3 June 2008).
At the request of the International Telecommunications Union, he produced a report on the legal challenges posed by the development of mHealth in Europe (Discussion Paper, "Filling the Gap: Legal and Regulatory Challenges of Mobile Health (mHealth) in Europe"). This report served as a basis for drawing up an international strategy for the development of medical applications accessible from mobile devices with or without satellite relays.
Lucien Rapp is a member of the Assessment Committee of France's "Institut de l'Entreprise" and the Steering Committee of the "Digital Economy" Chair of the Paris-Dauphine Foundation. As a student he won the City of Toulouse Award (1976) and the Thesis Prize, was appointed First Secretary of the Internship Conference (1977), was awarded the Gold Medal for his internship and the "Alexandre Fourtanier Prize" (1979) before graduating as Faculty Laureat of his year (1982). He is an Officer de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2009) and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2011).
Bibliography
Communications
ALARY D. & RAPP L., Steps towards ICSO : International Civil Space Organisation. Re-inventing Space’19, Belfast, 12-14 novembre 2019.
RAPP L., LONG G., MIRAMONT D. & SANTOS C., Legal Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Space. Re-inventing Space’19, Belfast, 12-14 novembre 2019.
RAPP L., LUCAS-RHIMBASSEN M., SANTOS C., Mega constellations – Liability and Insurance Issues. 70th IAC Conference, Washington, D.C., États-Unis, 21-25 octobre 2019.
RAPP L., LUCAS-RHIMBASSEN M., SANTOS C., Breaking the Golden Chain of Transparency: Crosslinks between cyber threat and blockchain within space and gold industries. 70th IAC Conference, Washington, D.C., États-Unis, 21-25 octobre 2019.
RAPP L. & SANTOS C., Blockchain Golden Rush. 70th IAC Conference, Washington, D.C., États-Unis, 21-25 octobre 2019.
RAPP L., LONG G. & SANTOS C., Special session on Space and Artificial Intelligence. 70th IAC Conference, Washington, D.C., États-Unis, 21-25 octobre 2019.
ALARY D. & RAPP L., What if …. 70th IAC Conference, Washington, D.C., États-Unis, 21-25 octobre 2019.
LONG G. A., LUCAS-RHIMBASSEN M., RAPP L. & SANTOS C., Conceptual model for a profitable return on investment from space debris as abiotic space resource. EUCASS’19, Spain, Madrid, 1-4 Juillet 2019.
RAPP L. & SANTOS C., Nudging Space – possible Governance for space Safety. IAASS Conference “Making Safety Happen”, Los Angeles, États-Unis, 15-17 mai 2019.
CLERC Ph & RAPP L., New Space. Cycle de conférence ENS Ulm : « Éthique de la conquête spatiale », France, Paris, 27 mars 2019.
RAPP L., Beyond the Craddle’19. MIT, Harvard and Sloan Business School, Boston, États-Unis, 13-15 mars 2019.
RAPP L., MIRAMONT D. & SANTOS C., High Resolution Satellite Imagery and Potential Identification of Individuals. P. Soille, S. Loekken, and S. Albani (Eds.) Proc. of the 2019 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’2019), EUR 29660 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 19 et 21 février 2019, p.237-240. Additional file #1
ALARY D., CLERC P., MORANTA S. & RAPP L., Toward an International Organization to handle a Sustainable Space Traffic Management – A functional approach of ICSO. IAC-18-E3.4.10, Bremen, Oct. 2018.
DOS SANTOS PAULINO V. & RAPP L., L’industrie spatiale entre deux époques ?. In Les Matinales de la Recherche – Toulouse Business School & SIRIUS Chair (p. 25). Toulouse, France, 2017
RAPP L., CARME N. & DURAND-CARRIER R., Space industrial war: Towards a risk of creeping takeovers in the global space industry?. 4th Manfred Lachs International Conference on Conflicts in Space and the Rule of Law, Institute of Air & Space Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 27-28 mai 2016.
RAPP L., Synthèse – Éléments juridiques. Coopérations spatiales Internationales : entre évidence scientifique, enjeux politiques et aspects culturels, Colloque organisé par l’Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France, 7 janvier 2016.
RAPP L., Le contentieux des débris spatiaux. Colloque (Dijon), 9-10 octobre 2015.
RAPP L., Space and m-Health : Application to the Ivory Coast. 1res Assises du Numérique de la Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, 28-29 mai 2015.
RAPP L., Space and Legal Aspects of CyberCrime. Toulouse Cyberdefence Workshop, 29 avril 2015.
RAPP L., DOS SANTOS PAULINO, V. & MARTIN A., New Entrants Threatening Existing Firms in Space Industry – Would Satellite Miniaturization Be a Disruptive Innovation?. 3e MLC, Montréal, 17-19 mars 2015.
RAPP L., Space Industry facing the new Directive Concession. Bavairia BHO, Munich, 18-19 février 2015.
RAPP L., Qu’est-ce que le patrimoine immatériel d’une entreprise du secteur spatial ?. 5e Ateliers Droit & Espace, Toulouse, 7 octobre 2014.
RAPP L., Building Bridges on Global Governance Issues : Is Cyberspace reshaping Outerspace ?. Colloque de Montréal sur la “Global Space Governance”, MLC Mc Gill, 29 mai 2014.
RAPP L., Sirius. Futurapolis – Le Point, 16 mai 2014.
RAPP L., L’industrie spatiale à l’heure des Partenariats Public Privé. Société Française de Droit Aérien et Spatial, 3 avril 2014.
Papers
RAPP L., LONG G., LUCAS-RHIMBASSEN M. & SANTOS C., Conceptual model for a profitable return on investment from space debris as abiotic space resource. 8th Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences, EUCASS, 2019 13 p.
RAPP L., SANTOS C., Satellite Imagery, Very High-Resolution and Processing-Intensive Image Analysis: Potential Risks Under the GDPR. Air and Space Law, 2019, vol. 44, Issue 3, p. 275–295.
RAPP L., MIRAMONT D. & SANTOS C., High Resolution Satellite Imagery and Potential Identification of Individuals. P. Soille, S. Loekken, and S. Albani (Eds.) Proc. of the 2019 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’2019), EUR 29660 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2019, p.237-240. Additional file #1
RAPP L., Space lawmaking. Space Review, 2018.
RAPP L., CARME N. & DURAND-CARRIER R., Space Industrial War: Towards a Wave of Takeovers in the Global Arms Industry. 4th Manfred Lach Conference, Montreal, MacGill, 2016.
RAPP L., V° Activités spatiales. In Dictionnaire des Régulations, Lextenso, 2015.
RAPP L., DOS SANTOS PAULINO V. & MARTIN A., Would Satellite Miniaturization Be a “Disruptive Innovation”?. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Global Space Governance, McGill, 2015.
RAPP L., BUILDING BRIDGES: Lessons of Governance from Cyberspace to Outerspace. Proceedings of 2nd Manfred Lach Conference, Montréal MacGill, 2014.
RAPP L., Numérique et Concurrence. RFDA n°5, septembre-octobre 2014, p.896.
RAPP L., Filing the Gap – Legal and Regulatory Challenges of mHealth in Europe. International Telecommunications Union, 2014.
RAPP L., Releasing the Potential for Economic Growth in the Space Sector, Space Law Symposium. American Bar Association, Washington, USA, juin 2013.
RAPP L., Use of Satellite Image as Judicial Evidence. Colloque “Evidence from Space”, Imperial College, Londres, 2010.
Partners
