Sovereignty and the Delimitation of Airspace: A Philosophical and Historical Survey Supported by the Resources of the Andrew G. Haley Archive
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OF AIRSPACE: A PHILOSOPHICAL AND
HISTORICAL SURVEY SUPPORTED BY
THE RESOURCES OF THE ANDREW G.
HALEY ARCHIVE
Michael S. Dodge*
The airplane is indeed the architect of a changing world.1
INTRODUCTION
Over the past century, the law of the air has come into its
own. Like many fields before it, air law has established itself as
a legal necessity. Though humanity has only been flying for
slightly over a century, the law has wasted no time in asserting
itself. Indeed, multiple extant treaties cover everything from
public2 to private3 air law. Topics ranging from concerns over
security4 to liability' for third parties damaged on the ground
have been covered by the air treaty regime. It is incontroverti-
Mr. Dodge is an Assistant Research Counsel at the National Center for Remote
Sensing, Air, and Space Law, and a member of the Mississippi Bar. He earned his J.D.
from the University of Mississippi School of Law, and worked as a research assistant
and intern with the Center while completing his coursework. Mr. Dodge helped re-
search the legal regimes of foreign nation-states for a study for the U.S. Dept. of Com-
merce/NOAA that culminated in a Center article entitled: The Land Remote Sensing
Laws and Policies of National Governments: A Global Survey. With fellow participant
Eric McAdamis, he placed second in the North American Regionals of the 2007 Manfred
Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition at Georgetown University Law Center in
Washington D.C. Currently, Mr. Dodge is processing the Andrew G. Haley Archive.
Charles S. Rhyne, International Law and Air Transportation, 47 MICH. L. REV. 41
(1948).
2 Convention on International Civil Aviation, Dec. 7, 1944; 61 Stat. 1180, 15
U.N.T.S. 295 [hereinafter Chicago Convention].
' International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Interna-
tional Carriage by Air, Oct. 12, 1929, 49 Stat. 3000, 137 L.N.T.S. 11 [hereinafter War-
saw Convention].
4 Paris Convention for the Regulation of Aerial Navigation, Oct. 13, 1919, 11
L.N.T.S. 173 [hereinafter Paris Convention].
' Convention on Damage Caused by Foreign Aircraft to Third Parties on the Sur-
face, Oct. 7, 1952, ICAO Doc. 7364, 310 U.N.T.S. 181 [hereinafter Rome Convention].](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/jrlsl35&div=7&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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