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24 J. Space L. 1 (1996)
The Growth of Space Law through the Cases

handle is hein.journals/jrlsl24 and id is 5 raw text is: The GROWTH OF SPACE LAW THROUGH THE CASES Stephen Gorove* Introduction During its short-lived existence in the latter part of the twentieth century, space law has witnessed an unparalleled growth in authoritative doctrines and institutional practices. Within a narrow span of less than four decades, laws and regulations, both national and international, together with scholarly writings, have grown into an ever-expanding collection. Apart from the large number of multilateral and bilateral agreements, U.N. resolutions and other international instruments, as well as an equally substantial body of domestic laws and administrative regulations, there has also been a not entirely negligible array of judicial decisions, most of them arising in the United States though some of them also surfacing in foreign countries.1 * Director of Space Law and Policy Studies and Chairman, Ed. Bd. JOURNAL OF SPACE LAW, University, Mississippi. Member, International Academy of Astronautics. Hon. Director (Vice-Pres.), International Institute of Space Law. Representative of the International Astronautical Federation, the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the International Law Association (ILA) to the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Chairman: ASIL, ILA (Am. Branch) Space Law Committees. Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Hon. member, Japanese Society for the Study of Law and Policy on Space Utilization. Author/Editor: SPACE LAW: ITS CHALLENGES AND PRoSPECTS (1977); THE SPACE SHUTrrTLE AND THE LAW (1981); THE TEACHING OF SPACE LAW AROUND THE WORLD (1986); DEVELOPMENTS IN SPACE LAW: ISSUES AND POLICIES (1991); UNITED STATES SPACE LAW - NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL REGULATION (1981-96); CASES ON SPACE LAW - TEXTS, COMMENTS AND REFERENCES (1996). The author wishes to express his appreciation to Michael A. Gorove, Attorney at Law, for assistance provided in the preparation of this article. 1 The first separate collection of significant judicial decisions, both domestic and foreign, in the field of space law appeared in STEPHEN GOROVE, CASES ON SPACE LAW - TEXTS, COMMENTS AND REFERENCES (1996). Few space law treatises make mention of court decisions. For brief discussions of some cases, see Karl-Heinz Bdckstiegel, Case Law on Space Activities, in SPACE LAW - DEVELOPMENT AND SCOPE 205 (Nandasiri Jasentuliyana ed., 1992); I.H.PH. DIEDERIKS-VERSCHOOR, AN INTRODUCTION TO SPACE LAW (1993); STEPHEN GOROVE, DEVELOPMENTS IN SPACE LAW - ISSUES AND POLICIES (1991); PAMELA L. MEREDITH & GEORGE S. ROBINSON, SPACE LAW: A CASE STUDY FOR THE PRACTICIONrR (1992). Selected space law cases have also been discussed in papers presented at several national and international conferences as well as in the periodical literature. See, for example, Phillip D. Bostwick, Star Trek: Litigating Commercial Space Issues Through the Courts, paper presented at the Fourth Annual

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