Feb 26, 2022 | Air and Space Law, Article, Feature, Timothy Ravich
By Timothy Ravich Commercial airplanes are vectors of infectious disease, advancing, if not sparking, global epidemics and potentially pandemics by exporting pathogens from endemic areas of the world to non-endemic places. For example, according to the global...
Feb 26, 2022 | Air and Space Law, Article, Feature, Paul B. Larsen
By Paul B. Larsen The space powers (the U.S., the European Space Agency (ESA), China, and Russia) are now preparing national space traffic regimes with insufficient regard for the Outer Space Treaty’s (OST) agreed “Principles Governing the Activities of States in...
Sep 1, 2019 | Air and Space Law, Andrea J. Harrington, Article, Feature, Legal History
By Andrea J. Harrington Abstract As numerous governments and commercial entities plan ambitious expeditions into outer space and to celestial bodies, humanity’s heritage in space is threatened. Fifty years following the Apollo 11 landing, we have recognized the...
Jun 1, 2019 | Air and Space Law, Article, Feature, Patrick J. Kearns
By Patrick J. Kearns Abstract The following article addresses recent developments in aviation law and the aviation field generally over the past year, i.e., in the time frame of approximately January 2018 to January 2019. This Article will examine a selection of new...
Jun 1, 2019 | Air and Space Law, Article, Feature, Property Law and Real Estate, Tyler Conte
By Tyler Conte Abstract In November 2015, the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (commonly known as the SPACE Act) became federal law. For private aerospace companies, particularly those with the goal of eventually using or supplying resources obtained...
