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Aircraft Noise Pollution: Is Land Use Planning The Answer? , Milan M. Dostal Pepperdine University

Aircraft Noise Pollution: Is Land Use Planning The Answer? , Milan M. Dostal

Pepperdine Law Review

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Cleaning Up Space: The Madrid Protocol To The Antarctic Treaty As A Model For Regulating Orbital Debris, Mary Button College of William & Mary Law School

Cleaning Up Space: The Madrid Protocol To The Antarctic Treaty As A Model For Regulating Orbital Debris, Mary Button

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Aviation Litigation: Federal Preemption And The Creation Of A Federal Remedy As A Means To Extinguish The Current Confusion In The Courts, Deborah J. Olsen Pepperdine University

Aviation Litigation: Federal Preemption And The Creation Of A Federal Remedy As A Means To Extinguish The Current Confusion In The Courts, Deborah J. Olsen

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Use Of Aviation Accident Reports By Civil Litigants: The Historical Development Of 49 U.S.C. Section 1441(E), Walter A. T. Welch Jr., John E. Faulk Pepperdine University

The Use Of Aviation Accident Reports By Civil Litigants: The Historical Development Of 49 U.S.C. Section 1441(E), Walter A. T. Welch Jr., John E. Faulk

Pepperdine Law Review

When aviation accidents occur, the National Transportation Safety Board conducts an investigation to determine the conditions, circumstances, and ultimately the probable cause of the accident. There is a federal statutory privilege which renders these reports, as well as testimony from the attending investigator, inadmissible as evidence in any suit or action arising from the accident. However, certain judicially created exceptions have arisen which permit portions of the report and certain investigator testimony to be admitted into evidence. The authors delineate and analyze these exceptions as they discuss the trend toward increased report and testimony admissibility. The authors conclude with a ...


International Law Of Outer Space And Its Effect On Commercial Space Activity, James J. Trimble Pepperdine University

International Law Of Outer Space And Its Effect On Commercial Space Activity, James J. Trimble

Pepperdine Law Review

The United Nations, through a series of five treaties, has created a body of international space law which controls the activities in space of states, international organizations, and private interests. Corporations planning an investment in commercial space ventures must consider the restrictions and obligations which space law will impose on their activities. This article discusses the substantive principles of the law of outer space and focuses on those provisions which will affect commercial space activities.


Asteroids, The New Wester Frontier, Lauren E. Shaw Chapman University School of Law

Asteroids, The New Wester Frontier, Lauren E. Shaw

Lauren E Shaw

The existence of a right in property has long incentivized individuals to take on costly, time consuming, and even dangerous ventures. These ventures, like the extraction of coal, gas and oil from uncharted America back in the 1800’s, have led to developments that greatly benefit society as a whole. Today, we have advanced to the point where one of the next costly, time consuming, dangerous, yet potentially extreme advantageous undertakings is in asteroid mining. However, there is currently no law that directly addresses what rights a miner would have in resources extracted from an asteroid. While many have argued ...


The United States Government As Defendant - One Example Of The Need For A Uniform Liability Regime To Govern Outer Space And Space-Related Activities, Joseph A. Bosco Pepperdine University

The United States Government As Defendant - One Example Of The Need For A Uniform Liability Regime To Govern Outer Space And Space-Related Activities, Joseph A. Bosco

Pepperdine Law Review

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Aviator's Rights In Airspace - United States V. Causby University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Aviator's Rights In Airspace - United States V. Causby

Maryland Law Review

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