Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
Is gambling in outer space legal under United States law? With commercial space flights now almost routine, and gambling growing by leaps and bounds, this question is becoming more pressing by the day. As it happens, three existing federal criminal laws— dating, respectively, from 1790, 1825, and 1951—make it clear that betting in outer space currently is illegal in nearly all instances.
Publication Title (Abbreviation)
J. SPACE L.
First Page
119
NSUWorks Citation
Robert M. Jarvis,
Lost (It All) in Space: The Legality of Extra-Terrestrial Gambling, 47
J. SPACE L.
119
(2023),
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/law_facarticles/458