Library: A Round-up of Reading

November 17, 2008 at 9:49 am | Posted in Library | Leave a comment

Articles
Sang Wook Daniel Han, Global Administrative Law: Global Governance of the Global Positioning System and Galileo, 14 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law 571 (2008).

McKay Cunningham, The Montreal Convention: Can Passengers Finally Recover for Mental Injuries?, 41 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1043 (2008).

Tobias W. Mock, THE TSA’s NEW X-RAY VISION: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT IMPLICATIONS OF “BODY-SCAN” SEARCHES AT DOMESTIC AIRPORT SECURITY CHECKPOINTS, 49 Santa Clara Law Review 213 (2008).

Joosung J. Lee, Legal analysis of Sea Launch license: National security and environmental concerns, 24 Space Policy 104 (2008)

Álvaro Fabricio dos Santosa & José Monserrat Filho, Need for a National Brazilian Centre of Space Policy and Law Studies, 24 Space Policy 6 (2008)

Reports
Nonproliferation: U.S. Agencies Have Taken Some Steps, but More Effort Is Needed to Strengthen and Expand the Proliferation Security Initiative. GAO-09-43, November 10.

Aviation and the Environment: Initial Voluntary Airport Low Emissions Program Projects Reduce Emissions, and FAA Plans to Assess the Program’s Overall Performance as Participation Increases.
GAO-09-37, November 7.

The Australian Senate Standing Committee on Economics – Lost in Space? Setting a new direction for Australia’s space science and industry sector

Starchaser Industries – Executive Summary to Contract Number 20342/06/F/VS: Study of European Privately-Funded Vehicles for COmmercial Human Space Flight

Newsletters
Missile Defense Update #8: Nov. 10, 2008 – CDI

Exploring New Content in HeinOnline (November 2008)

Blogs
Commercial Satellite Imagery Sheds Light Here and There – Secrecy News

Videos: BBC at Mojave Spaceport; Space law panel; TrueZer0 interview – HobbySpace.com

Preparing for the transition – Space Politics

FAA Recommends UN Commercial Space Flight Regime Development – Spaceports

“Statistics from Space”: Fun with the Gates Foundation and Data as a Public Good – Off the Map

Ethical Implementation of GI Technologies – GeoData Policy

Is Spaceport Sweden lost in…space? – Hyperbola

Spaceport Sweden, SS2, and regulations – HobbySpace.com

NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK IN INDIA FOR SPACE ISSUES – CYBER FORENSICS IN INDIA

India planting flag on the moon sparks curiousity – The Legal Infrastructure of Business

British Transport Police to use ERDAS APOLLO – EARSC

Intel, AF Sats Must Go Separate Ways: Kehler – DoD Buzz

Briefs: Space policy influence; Jack Schmitt disses roadmap; A useful Moon – HobbySpace.com

Launch of Cosmos-2445 – Kobalt-M optical reconnaissance satellite – Russian Strategic Forces

Websites
Black Holes and the Law