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Who owns the sky? : the struggle to control airspace from the Wright brothers on / Stuart Banner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banner, Stuart, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics--Law and legislation--United States.
- Aeronautics.
- Airspace (Law)--United States.
- Airspace (Law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- A momentous problem
- An aerial territory
- The peculiar beauties of the common law
- A uniform law
- Interstate commerce in the air
- Landowners against the aviation industry
- The rise and fall of air law
- William Douglas has the last word
- Sovereignty in space
- Technological change and legal change.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-343) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674020498
- 0674020499
- OCLC:
- 503050775
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