TORONTO — The $60,000 Donner Prize has been awarded to a book discussing the legal implications of space exploration.
The book “Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space” has received the prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian.
Michael Byers and Aaron Boley, who are both teachers at the University of British Columbia, have won the award as co-authors of the book. They will share the prize money.
The jurors have commended the book for providing a practical analysis of an important subject, addressing both the scientific and governance aspects of space law.
Other nominated works, which each receive $7,500, include “The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better” by Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie, and “Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to COVID-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever” by Joanna Baron and Christine Van Geyn.
Also in the running were “The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy” by Ignacio Cofone and “Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice” by Kent Roach.
