Current Issue

and Supplemental Material

Volume 35 - Summer 2009 - Number 1

Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz - Foreword

Articles

Michael S. Dodge - The Andrew G. Haley Archive at the University of Mississippi School of Law, National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law: An Introduction (preview article)

Supplements:

• The Andrew G. Haley Archive

Michael S. Dodge - Sovereignty and the Delimitation of Airspace: A Philosophical and Historical Survey Supported by the Resource of the Andrew G. Haley Archive

Supplements:

• 1944 - Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention)
• 1929 - Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air (Warsaw Convention)
• 1919 - Convention Relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation (Paris Convention)
• Convention on Damage Caused by Foreign Aircraft to Third Parties on the Surface (Rome Convention)
• A/AC.105/889/Add.1 - Questions on the definition and delimitation of outer space: replies from Member States (Jan. 21, 2008)
• P.L. 85-726 - Federal Aviation Act of 1958
• 1976 - Declaration of the First Meeting of Equatorial Countries (Bogotá Declaration)
• Constitution of Colombia (1991) (English translation)

Matthew Jude Egan & James Hurtak - The Openness Principle in Multilateral Agreements for Space Exploration

Supplements:

• 2007 - The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination
• A/AC.105/720 - Technical Report on Space Debris
• 1998 - Agreement Among the Government of Canada, Governments of Member States of the European Space Agency, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Government of the United States of America Concerning Cooperation on the Civil International Space Station (ISS IGA)

René Joseph Rey - Regulatory Challenges, Antitrust Hurdles, Intellectual Property Incentives, and the Collective Development of Aerospace Vehicle-enabling Technologies and Standards: Creating and Industry Foundation

Supplements:

• Patent No. 3,576,298 - Aerospace Vehicle
• P.L. 108-492: Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004
• NSIAD-99-176 - SPACE TRANSPORTATION: Status of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program
• GAO-02-1020 - SPACE TRANSPORTATION: Challenges Facing NASA’s Space Launch Initiative
• NASA Fact Sheet - Summary of FY 2004 Budget Request
• NASA Fact Sheet - Summary of FY 2005 Budget Request
• P.L. 96-517 - Government Patent Policy Act of 1980
• Space Exploration Technologies Corporation v. The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation, Case no. CV05-7533 FMC (MANx) (C.D. Cal. 2005)
  • Summons and Complaint
  • Order Granting Motions to Dismiss
• 68 Feb. Cl. 1 - Space Exploration Technologies v. United States (2005)
• 051-0165 - In the Matter of Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, and United Launch Alliance, L.L.C.
  • Comments of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
  • Letter from Donald S. Clark, Secretary, Federal Trade Commission, to Lawrence Williams, Vice-President, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (May 1, 2007).
  • Decision and Order
  • Concurring Statement of Commisioner Pamela Jones Harbour
• The Vision for Space Exploration (NP-2004-01-334-HQ) (2004)

Mark J. Sundahl - The Duty to Rescue Space Tourists and Return Private Spacecraft

Supplements:

• 1968 - Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space
• Res. 1962 (XVII) Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space (1963)
• ST/SPACE/11/Rev.2/Add.2 - Status of international agreements relating to activities in outer space as at 1 January 2009
• 1969 - Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• A/AC.105/740 - Note verbale dated 3 July 2000 from the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations (Vienna) addressed to the Secretary-General
• A/AC.105/825 - Note verbale dated 23 March 2004 from the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations (Vienna) addressed to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna
• A/AC.105/C.2/L.250/Add.1 - Practice of States and international organizations in registering space objects: replies from Member States
• 1945 - Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Human Space Flight Requirements (71 Fed. Reg. 75616)
• A/AC.105/814 - Report on the United Nations/Republic of Korea Workshop on Space Law on the theme “United Nations treaties on outer space: actions at the national level”

Paul F. Uhlir, Robert S. Chen, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, & Katleen Janssen - Toward Implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems Data Sharing Principles (Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License)

Supplements:

• NCRSASL - The Land Remote Sensing Laws and Policies of National Governments: A Global Survey
• CEOS data principles for operational environmental data (1995)
• CEOS satellite data exchange principles for global change data (1995)

• 2000 - Charter On Cooperation To Achieve The Coordinated Use Of Space Facilities In The Event Of Natural Or Technological Disasters
• A/RES/41/65 Principles relating to Remote Sensing of the Earth from Outer Space

Commentaries

Saligram Bhatt - Inspirations to Humankind from Space Law and Science and Experience in India

Supplements:

• A/CONF.184/3 - Draft Report on the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Lucien Rapp - When France Puts Its Own Stamp on the Space Law Lanscape: Comments on Law No. 2008-518 of 3 June 2008 Relative to Space Operations

Supplements:

• LOI no 2008-518 du 3 juin 2008 relative aux opérations spatiales ( French)
• LOI no 2008-518 du 3 juin 2008 relative aux opérations spatiales (unofficial English translation)

Bibliography

P.J. Blount - Aviation and Space Law: Relevant Publications