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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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