The Cape Town Convention

The UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment created a new international regime of secured finance applicable to aircraft and rolling stock that facilitates the financing of this equipment by, among other things, enabling lenders to create a readily enforceable security interest in the equipment. The Space Assets Protocol extends the benefits of the convention to satellites and other space assets. This book explains the operation of the convention in a manner that is useful both to lawyers engaged in satellite finance as well as to academics who desire to obtain a more complete understanding of this treaty. The book also explores the relationship between the convention and the existing body of space law.

Mark J. Sundahl, J.D. (2001) University of California, Hastings College of the Law, is an Associate Professor of Law at Cleveland State University. He has published extensively on commercial space law including Space Tourism and Export Controls: A Prayer for Relief (Journal of Air Law and Commerce).

"In summary, Sundahl’s scholarly book on the Cape Town Convention is well-written, and it is evident that the author did much research on the Convention and the Protocol."
-Sylvia Ospina, JD. LL.M., German Journal of Air and Space Law