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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

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