Product Description: This book examines the 'definition/delimitation question' with special regard to the passage of spacecraft through foreign airspace in order to reach orbit, as well as for returning to Earth. This is particularly important for space transportation systems like the US Space Shuttle or the Soviet Buran, which were used in the past...read more

Product Description: This is a policy oriented and comparatively oriented textbook on air and space law for students and practitioners. It covers the history and development in air and space law; their interrelationships with the law of the seas and the law of Antartica; institutions working in the field of air and space law; sovereignty in national penal air law; private international air law, especially liability law; and public and private space law Much attention is devoted to the law of air commerce: bilateral air services agreements; inter-airline co-operation; the effect of competition, antitrust and European Union law; deregulation, privatization and commercialization of air transport; ownership and control of airlines, and airline alliances; multilateralisation of air transport; and congestion and environmental controls...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In 1968, the American scholar John Cobb Cooper stated that "too little attention has been given to the legal control of flight above the high seas which cover a large percentage of the earth's surface." With certain notable exceptions this has remained true despite the acknowledged commercial, strategic and environmental significance of the airspace over the high seas...read more

An analysis of the 1983 Korean airliner incident explores the possible explanations for the straying over Soviet territory, the information that supports or contradicts each other, and the handling of the incident