How High the Sky?The Definition and Delimitation of Outer Space and Territorial Airspace in International Law,Thomas Gangale

-Résumé

Is there really any such thing as “space law?” How can there be when there is
no generally agreed legal definition and delimitation of outer space? Perhaps
space lawyers accept the declaration by fiat that there is such a field of law, as
they would not want to be practicing a nonexistent field.

I certainly would not
want to go the effort and expense of earning a juridical science doctorate in
a nonexistent field, and so it is a matter of self-interest that I dispel any question

of the existence of the field of space law by devising a legal definition and
delimitation of outer space which is technically correct, logically sound, and
practical to apply, and which therefore has the highest probability of becoming
generally accepted and ratified as international law.                

Space law needs to reach out to space scientists and aerospace engineers,
better ones than I. At the very least, there should be regular dialog between the
school of law and the department of aerospace engineering.

In sincere humility,although occasionally it may appear otherwise, I come from

the other side of this great divide. In my legal arguments, I may well miss points

of law that a more experienced lawyer would not, but at the same time it appears to me
that I see physical principles pertaining to outer space law that other lawyers.

-Contents
Foreword: Into the Lion’s Den Once Again                                           ix
Acknowledgements                                                                               xiii
List of Illustrations                                                                                 xiv
Abbreviations                                                                                         xvi
1 Opening Arguments                                                                               1
2 The Genesis of the Delimitation Issue                                                 7
3 The Political Approach: A Fistful of Theories                                   31
4 The Political Approach: For a Few Theories More                           49
5 The Spatial Approach: Arbitrary Altitudes                                        80
6 The Spatial Approach: Natural Phenomena                                      94
7 The Spatial Approach: Aerodynamic Lift                                         113
8 The Spatial Approach: Myths and Misconceptions                        120
9 The Spatial Approach: Aerostatic Buoyancy                                  157
10 The Spatial Approach: Lowest Perigee                                          165
11 The Functional Approach: Security of the State                           209
12 The Functional Approach: Its Rise and Stall                                 233
13 The Functional Approach: What Are Space Activities?                246
14 The Functional Approach: What Are Space Objects?                   264
15 What is Outer Space?                                                                       280
16 A Temporal Approach                                                                       291
17 National Practices and Legislation                                                 309
18 Right of Passage                                                                               321
19 Effective Control and State Interest Reconsidered                       372
20 A Hybrid Approach                                                                          389
21 A Draft Space Delimitation Convention                                         424
22 Practical Considerations and the Convention                              459
23 The Outer Limits                                                                               472
24 Summation                                                                                        490
Appendix 1: Altitudes of Interest with Regard to Spatial
Delimitation                                                                                            499
Appendix 2: Space Object Perigees below 100 Kilometers              506
Appendix 3: Selected Suborbital Flights                                             508
Appendix 4: Space Vehicle Reentry Altitude and Range Profiles     534
Appendix 5: Space Vehicle Ground Tracks                                        535
Appendix 6: Draft Convention Regarding Delimitation                     560
Appendix 7: Proyecto de Convenio Relativo a la Delimitación         567
Appendix 8: Projet de Convention Concernant la Délimitation        574
Appendix 9:                                                                                              581                                   
Appendix 10: Progetto di Convenzione sulla Delimitazione             589
Bibliography                                                                                           596
Index                                                                                                       630

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Date de parution : 13 décembre 2018

N.de pages : 668 pages

ISBN-13 : 978-9004366015

Dimensions : 6.4 x 1.8 x 9.4

Publisher : Brill  Nijhoff

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