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Who Owns the Sky? : The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On / Stuart Banner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (359 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674030824
  • 9780674020498
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 343.7309/7
LOC classification:
  • KF2400 -- B36 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674020498

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)