Clause Genealogies and the Accretion of Licence Text at a Small National Space Regulator
A paper in organisation studies from the School of Emergent Priorities reconstructs the ancestry of all 1,274 condition clauses in fourteen years of a small national space regulator's launch, return and payload instruments, finding that each new licence is drafted from a copy of the nearest previous one and that the mean instrument grew from 14 conditions to 32, 91% of them inherited. Nearly a quarter of recent conditions address equipment, roles or sites the licensed activity does not have, and the paper reads these carried conditions as the office's memory rather than its error.
| Authors | Petra Umbile , Iben Chikere , Anneke Tolan |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Anticipatory Capability Fund: Redrafting the School Newsletter's Term-Ahead Column Before the Copy-Paste Sets In ( $196,742) Anticipatory Capability Fund: Running the Roster Consultation Before a Surf Club Drafts Its Handover Note ( $419,637) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.t7lz6t |
| Pages | 7 |
| Cited by | 4 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_t7lz6t,
author = {Petra Umbile and Iben Chikere and Anneke Tolan},
title = {The Inherited Condition: Clause Genealogies and the Accretion of Licence Text at a Small National Space Regulator},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.t7lz6t},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-inherited-condition-t7lz6t/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}