Library: A Round-up of Reading
July 14, 2008 at 10:48 am | In Library | Comments OffArticles
Blalock, Garrick, Vrinda Kadiyali and Daniel H. Simon. The impact of post- 9/11 airport security measures on the demand for air travel. 50 J.L. & Econ. 731-755 (2007).
Gayle, Philip G. Airline code-share alliances and their competitive effects. 50 J.L. & Econ. 781-819 (2007).
Reagan, Daniel B. Note. Putting international aviation into the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme: can Europe do it flying solo? 35 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 349-384 (2008).
Speciale, Raymond C. and Brett D. Vernuizen. The pilot in command and the FARS: the buck stops here (almost always). 83 N.D. L. Rev. 817-836 (2007).
Collins, David. Efficient allocation of real property rights on the planet Mars. 14 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 201-219 (2008).
Demetrius Klitou, Backscatter body scanners — A strip search by other means, 24 Computer Law and Security Report 316-325 (2008).
Quale, John C. and Malcolm J. Tuesley. Space, the final frontier–expanding FCC regulation of indecent content onto direct broadcast satellite. 60 Fed. Comm. L.J. 37-66 (2007).
Jeff Foust, Energy vs. space, The Space Review.
Greg Anderson, Long-term decisions, short-term politics, The Space Review.
Reports
Air Force Procurement: Aerial Refueling Tanker Protest. GAO-08-991T, July 10
California Space Authority – Relevant Federal Legislation
Presentations
European Commission INSPIRE Conference 2008: Implementation and Beyond
Newsletters
Spatially Speaking – FGDC Monthly Update (June 2008)
AIAA – Horizons
Blogs
Newt Gingrich on Large Prizes and Congressional Rules – Space Prizes
DoD Renounces Security Restrictions on Unclassified Research – Secrecy News
Accident investigation beats divorce for lawyers – Learnmount
Geographic Information Systems Take Off – Life in Allston
Martinez: “find a way to shrink that gap” – Space Politics
Commemorating just about everything – Space Politics
Spaceport Sweden could class SpaceShipTwo as sounding rocket – Hyperbola
Speculation and Manipulation, Redux – Agricultural Law
How Important Is Data Quality? – Spatial Law Blog
Official NASA Publication Seeks Opinions On Gun Control – NASA Watch
Military officials release 500 balloons to mark milestone in Open Skies treaty
July 14, 2008 at 10:35 am | In Aviation Law Current Event | Leave a Commentby P.J. Blount with the blog faculty
From OCSE:
VIENNA, 14 July 2008 – Military officials from the countries that are part of the Open Skies Treaty released 500 balloons today on Heldenplatz outside the Hofburg in Vienna to commemorate the approaching 500th flight under the treaty, which was negotiated under OSCE auspices.
The 500th flight under the treaty, which allows its State Parties to carry out unarmed observation flights over each other’s territories, is expected to take place toward the end of this month. The 34 State Parties include most European states, the Russian Federation and the United States. The treaty depositaries are Canada and Hungary. All are OSCE participating States.
“Through the effective, successful conduct of these hundreds of flights, we have collectively built more confidence together than the treaty’s authors could have envisioned,” said U.S. Chief Arms Control Delegate Hugh Neighbour, who chairs the Vienna-based Open Skies Consultative Commission that implements the treaty. “There is no doubt that the treaty has made a significant contribution toward security and stability in the European area and beyond.”
Marton Krasznai, a former Hungarian Ambassador to the OSCE, said the treaty still served as “a useful and efficient confidence-building tool” despite the availability of satellite technology.
“No satellite imagery can compete with an Open Skies flight when it comes to the element of openness and co-operation,” he said. He also argued that Open Skies flights could be used to address threats posed, for example, by natural disasters.
The Treaty entered into force in January 2002. It is designed to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all participants the possibility to obtain information on military or other activities of concern to them. Open Skies is the most wide-ranging international effort to date to promote openness and transparency of military forces and their activities.
For more information about the Open Skies Treaty, the OSCC, and the observation flights, please see: http://www.osce.org/about/13516.html
McGill to team with Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University
July 14, 2008 at 8:35 am | In Aviation Law Current Event, Space Law Current Events | Leave a Commentby P.J. Blount with the blog faculty
From Indiaedunews.net:
July 12, 2008
Uttar Pradesh varsity to tie up with Canadian universityLucknow: The Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University (RMLNLU) here will tie up with a Canadian University to offer courses on air and space laws, an official said on Saturday.
“We are all set to collaborate with the McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law,” RMLLU vice-chancellor Balraj Chauhan told IANS.
The course on air and space laws will cover legal and policy issues regarding aviation, regulation of activities in outer space, air safety and transport regulation, an official said.
For imparting training on air and space laws, RMLLU will set up a science-technology-law centre on its campus, the official added. IANS
Federal Register: Policy Regarding Airport Rates and Charges
July 14, 2008 at 8:32 am | In Remote Sensing Law Current Events | Leave a Comment
by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty
The FAA published a notice on Policy Regarding Airport Rates and Charges in today’s Federal Register (73 F.R. 40430-40445):
SUMMARY: This action amends the Department of Transportation (“Department”) “Policy Regarding the Establishment of Airport Rates and Charges” published in the Federal Register on June 21, 1996 (“1996 Rates and Charges Policy”). This action adopts three amendments to the 1996 Rates and Charges Policy (two modifications and one clarification). These amendments are intended to provide greater flexibility to operators of congested airports to use landing fees to provide incentives to air carriers to use the airport at less congested times or to use alternate airports to meet regional air service needs. Any charges imposed on international operations must also comply with the international obligations of the United States.
and the background on the policy change:
On January 17, 2008, the Department of Transportation published a notice in the Federal Register proposing to amend the Department of Transportation (“Department”) “Policy Regarding the Establishment of Airport Rates and Charges” published in the Federal Register on June 21, 1996, (“1996 Rates and Charges Policy” or “1996 Policy”). (73 FR 3310, January 17, 2008). The comment period on the notice was extended to April 3, 2008. (73 FR 7626, February 8, 2008). The notice proposed three amendments to the 1996 Policy (technically two modifications and one clarification). These amendments were intended to provide greater flexibility to operators of congested airports to use landing fees to provide incentives to air carriers to use the airport at less congested times or to use alternate airports to meet regional air service needs. The notice noted that any charges imposed on international operations must also comply with the international obligations of the United States.
Specifically, the notice first proposed to clarify the 1996 Policy by explicitly acknowledging that airport operators are authorized to establish a two-part landing fee structure consisting of both an operation charge and a weight-based charge, in lieu of the standard weight-based charge. Such a two-part fee would serve as an incentive for carriers to use larger aircraft and increase the number of passengers served with the same or fewer operations. Second, the notice proposed to expand the ability of the operator of a congested airport to include in the airfield fees of a congested airport a portion of the airfield costs of other, underutilized airports owned and operated by the same proprietor. Third, the notice proposed to permit the operator of a congested airport to charge users of a congested airport a portion of the cost of airfield projects under construction. Under the existing policy, costs of new or reconstructed airfield facilities could be included in airfield charges only when the new or reconstructed facilities are completed and in use, unless carriers at the airport agree otherwise. This notice proposed two alternatives for charges for projects under construction. The first would permit the costs to be included in the rate base only during periods when the airport experiences congestion. At some airports, such as Chicago O’Hare or New York LaGuardia, this could occur throughout the normal operating day. The second would permit these costs to be included in the rate base of the congested airport at all times of the day. Because the latter two proposed amendments would apply only at congested airports, the notice proposed to add a definition of “congested airport” in the Applicability section of the 1996 Policy based upon 49 U.S.C. 47175(2).
GeoEye-1 Delivered To Launch Site
July 14, 2008 at 7:49 am | In Remote Sensing Law Current Events | Leave a Commentby Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty
Source: Satellite Today
[Satellite Today 07-10-08] GeoEye Inc.’s GeoEye-1 satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in advanced of its scheduled Aug. 22 launch, GeoEye… read more.
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