Who Owns the Sky? : The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On.
Banner, Stuart.
Who Owns the Sky? : The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (360 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- ONE A Momentous Problem -- TWO An Aerial Territory -- THREE The Peculiar Beauties of the Common Law -- FOUR A Uniform Law -- FIVE Interstate Commerce in the Air -- SIX Landowners against the Aviation Industry -- SEVEN The Rise and Fall of Air Law -- EIGHT William Douglas Has the Last Word -- NINE Sovereignty in Space -- TEN Technological Change and Legal Change -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner's book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law.
9780674020498
Aeronautics--Law and legislation--United States.
Airspace (Law)--United States.
Electronic books.
KF2400 .B36 2008
343.7309/7
Who Owns the Sky? : The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (360 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- ONE A Momentous Problem -- TWO An Aerial Territory -- THREE The Peculiar Beauties of the Common Law -- FOUR A Uniform Law -- FIVE Interstate Commerce in the Air -- SIX Landowners against the Aviation Industry -- SEVEN The Rise and Fall of Air Law -- EIGHT William Douglas Has the Last Word -- NINE Sovereignty in Space -- TEN Technological Change and Legal Change -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner's book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law.
9780674020498
Aeronautics--Law and legislation--United States.
Airspace (Law)--United States.
Electronic books.
KF2400 .B36 2008
343.7309/7