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. The last chapter of the book briefly deals with the legal aspects of commercial outer space application. Increasingly, air transport, both in fact and in law, is becoming an ordinary industry like any other and is being treated as such. Rapidly, commercial outer space activities are being privatized and commercialized.
Chapter A. The autonomy of air and space law B. Treatment of subject matters
Chapter 1. The origins of air and space law A. The origins of air law B. The origins of space law C. Interrelationships
Chapter 2. National sovereignty A. Sovereignty in airspace B. Sovereignty in outer space C. Interrelationships
Chapter 3. Organisations A. Aeronautical organisations B. Astronautical organisations C. Interrelationships
Chapter 4. Public aerospace law A. The Chicago Convention system B. Penal air law C. The corpus iuris spatialis D. Other UN outer space law instruments
Chapter 5. Private aerospace law A. The Warsaw Convention system B. The Rome Convention system C. Other private air law conventions D. Non-conventional private international air law E. The Liability Convention F. Other private international outer space law
Chapter 6. The law and policy of air commerce A. The freedoms of the air B. Bilateral air transport agreements C. Traditional inter-airline co-operation D. Competition law E. European Union law F. Deregulation, privatisation and commercialisation of air transport G. Ownership and control of airlines and airline alliances H. Multilateralisation of international air transport I. Slots and environmental protection
Chapter 7. Commercial activities in outer space A. Telecommunications B. Remote sensing C. Launching D. Transportation E. Communication and navigation, Concluding remarks,
Annexes
Annex 1. Chicago Convention 1944
Annex 2. Tokyo Convention 1963
Annex 3. Hague Convention 1970
Annex 4. Montreal Convention 1971
Annex 5. Outer Space Treaty 1967
Annex 6. Registration Treaty 1975
Annex 7. Moon Agreement 1979
Annex 8. Montreal Convention 1999
Annex 9. Aircraft Equipment Protocol to Cape Town Convention 2001
Annex 10. Liability Convention 1972
Annex 11. Draft Protocol on Matters relating to Space Assets 2002
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