Banner, Stuart,  1963- <br/><br/>
Who owns the sky? :  the struggle to control airspace from the Wright brothers on / 
Stuart Banner. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  2008. 
 - 353 p. :  ill ;  22 cm. 
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<br/><br/>A momentous problem -- An aerial territory -- The peculiar beauties of the common law -- A uniform law -- Interstate commerce in the air -- Landowners against the aviation industry -- The rise and fall of air law -- William Douglas has the last word -- Sovereignty in space -- Technological change and legal change. 
<br/><br/> Examines the intellectual history of American law in the first half of the twentieth century from the perspective of the debate that arose with the invention of the airplane over aerial trespass and who owns the sky. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674030824 (trade) 0674030826 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008012633 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aeronautics--Law and legislation--United States.<br/>Airspace (Law)--United States.<br/>Aeronautics--Law and legislation.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>343.7309/7