re: Laws for space
If a country decides not to respect a space treaty anymore, it can withdraw from it by a declaration and one year after, it will be recognized as such.
But how about multinational corporations willing to build a L5 Colony?
(First, I wonder if it will ever happen).
If you have companies from different countries with different approaches regarding space treaties, it can be possible to turn around them.
Laws will become meaningful only when we're ready to go out there by thousands and we're not there yet at all.
Raoul