Bin Cheng was a Chinese-born British legal scholar who lived from 1921 to 2019. An authority on international air and space law, he served as professor and dean of the University College London Faculty of Laws and honorary president of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law. He was a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an honorary fellow at UCL, was named an officier of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French government, and was awarded the Santos-Dumont Merit Medal by the Brazilian government.
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An authority on international air and space law, he served as professor and dean of the University College London Faculty of Laws and honorary president of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law.
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Bin Cheng was a Chinese-born British legal scholar who lived from 1921 to 2019.
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Bin Cheng was a Chinese-born British legal scholar.
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He invented the theory of instant customary international law, which states that opinio juris is the only necessary element for the creation of a new customary international law, which may be created "over night" as long as opinio juris about its existence is not rejected by member states of the international community.
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was a Chinese-born British legal scholar
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Wikidata Q72722674, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1921
Wikidata Q72722674, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1921-01-21
Wikidata Q72722674, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 2019
Wikidata Q72722674, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 2019-10-16
Wikidata Q72722674, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Beijing
Wikidata Q72722674, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): London
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