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


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Gaming Law Commons

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