About us
Our Objective
The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in space activities, which are expanding not only into new fields such as space tourism but also increasingly involve commercial actors.
It is to be expected that this increase in actors involved in space activities and the corresponding congestion of at least the lower orbits, will over time lead to an uptake of space-related disputes.
Given the international, highly technical, and often confidential nature of space activities, international arbitration is a uniquely well suited dispute resolution mechanism for the space community.
The Space Arbitration Association has therefore the objective of creating room for exchange between the international arbitration and space communities. It will create a registry of articles and public documents on space-related arbitration proceedings, organize events on topics related to space arbitration, and address current issues on its blog.
The Team
Laura Yvonne Zielinski. Laura is the Founder and President of the Space Arbitration Association. She is Senior Counsel at Holland & Knight in Mexico City and specializes in commercial and investor-State arbitration, with a particular focus on Public International Law, including International Space Law. She studied at Sciences Po in Paris, Columbia Law School in New York (Parker Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), and completed the Strategic Space Law Course at McGill University. She is qualified to practice law in Paris, New York and Mexico, and is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Investment Protection of Space Assets under International Law under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stephan Hobe at the University of Cologne.
Dr. Jan Frohloff. Jan is the Editor-in-Chief of the Space Arbitration Blog. He is a partner at the dispute resolution boutique SRP in Munich, Germany. His primary practice focuses on international arbitrations in space and satellite disputes. Jan regularly publishes, speaks and teaches on the topics of international arbitration and space disputes. His article “Arbitration in Space Disputes” from 2019 spent eight months in Arbitration International’s top five list of most read articles, two of which as the number one most read article.
Dr. Julian Scheu. Julian is Junior Professor of Public Law, International Law, and International Investment Law at the University of Cologne. He manages the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC) and focuses on international economic law, European law, international dispute settlement, and comparative administrative law. One of his research projects concerns the application of investment treaties in outer space. He is acting as an advisor to the Space Arbitration Association.
Roman Saavedra. Roman is a Product Designer/Front-End Developer based in Mexico City. He is responsible for the product design of the Space Arbitration Association. He co-founded the Space Arbitration Association in 2021.
Riccardo Loschi. Riccardo Loschi is a Senior Associate at LALIVE, where he represents clients in commercial and investment arbitration, set-aside, and enforcement proceedings. He also advises on foreign investment, regulatory, and national security matters. Riccardo lectures on Space Law at the World Trade Institute (as of June 2025) and has participated in public consultations on the draft EU and Swiss space laws. Before joining the Space Arbitration Association, he was a member of the European Centre for Space Law, the managing editor of Columbia FDI Perspectives, and a research assistant at the Columbia Center for International Arbitration. Riccardo holds a law degree from Bocconi Law School and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School.
Vivasvat (Viva) Dadwal. Viva is an Associate in the New York City office of King & Spalding LLP. Her practice involves commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, as well as enforcement proceedings before U.S. courts. Viva studied law at McGill University and at the National University of Singapore, graduating with joint Bachelors of Common and Civil Law. Prior to law school, Viva worked for the Government of Canada, assisting with international trade and investment treaty negotiations. Viva co-leads the Research Project on Space-Related Disputes at McGill University’s Institute of Air & Space Law.
Tobias Meier. Tobias is an associate at Borris Hennecke Kneisel in Cologne, Germany, where he focuses on complex commercial disputes before State courts and arbitral tribunals. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cologne. His dissertation, written under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stephan Hobe, addresses the role of international arbitration in resolving future space-related disputes.
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