Emerging Trends in Air and Space Law

Contents: Foreword/S.S. Sidhu. Introduction/Ranbir Singh. Preface/V. Balakista Reddy. Acknowledgements/V. Balakista Reddy. 1. Introduction for Air Law/V. Balakista Reddy. 2. Introduction for Space Law/V. Balakista Reddy. 3. Emerging trends in Civil Aviation--changes in the ownership of airports and air navigation services/Tulsi Kesharwani. 4. Airports privatisation and emerging legal issues/V. Balakista Reddy. 5. Denied over flight: the incident of the KL 685 issues and legal implications from the perspective of Air Law/Siti Zuraida, edited by S.P. Singamsetty. 6. Slot allocation in the European Union Legal Framework, current issues and developments/Mu-Chiao (Franco) Ho. 7. Consolidation in the airlines industry/Pablo Mendes de Leon. 8. Aviation and its impact on environments/S. Bhatt. 9. World class and beyond--role of market access/P.C.K. Ravindran. 10. Terrorism and the changing law of crime in civil aviation/S. Bhatt. 11. Changing dimensions in Civil Aviation Terrorism/P.V.K. Reddy. 12. Emerging trends in Civil Aviation -- issues related to bilateral and open skies/Tulsi Kesharwani. 13. Air safety and security regulations: national and international perspectives/V. Balakista Reddy. 14. Towards a SAARC Common Aviation Policy?/Ruwantissa Abeyratne and Usha Balasubramaniam. 15. Civil aircrafts and as missiles of terrorists: an analysis of New Anti-Hijacking Policy of India/Madhabhushi Sridhar. 16. Liberalisation and privatisation of the Indian Civil Aviation Sector: special focus on Open Skies Agreements/Arun Mohan and Aditya Wadhwa. 17. Intellectual Property Rights in Civil Aviation Industry/Arul George Scaria. 18. Liberalisation and privatisation of aviation industry: do we need a new dispute settlement mechanism?/Vijayabharati Havaragi. 19. A new regulatory framework for Civil Aviation in India/Rohan Shah, Sudip Mahapatra, Sumana Nagendran, Mahfooz Nazki and Manshur Nazki. 20. What is Outer Space Law?/S. Bhatt. 21. India\'s contribution to the development of International Space Law and Policy/V. Balakista Reddy. 22. Satellite communications an EC Competition Law/S.S. Sagar Priyatham. 23. Crossing the final frontier: an analysis of Property Rights in the Corpus Juris Spatialis/Ketan Mukhija. 24. Space policy and sustainable development/D.P. Rao. 25. Intellectual property Rights in remote sensing activities: an overview/Debarupa Banerjee. 26. Comprehensive and futuristic space legislation: India\'s need of the hour/V. Balakista Reddy. 27. Intellectual Property Rights and Space Activities -- emerging issues/V. Gopalakrishnan. 28. Space treaty and Space Law for future four decades/S. Bhatt. Select bibliography. Index.

"This book is comprises of papers presented at the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Air and Space Law, held on October 8 and 9, 2005 at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. It makes an attempt to deal with the emerging Air Law and Space Law issues. Air and space technology has always fascinated the mankind through sheer innovative ideas.

In the aviation sector, liberalization, globalization, deregulation and re-regulation have become worldwide phenomena. India is no exception to these global developments. Liberalization effectively started in India in the late 1980s. Now we have the open skies policy in place due to a strong consumer demand and constraints on the rapid expansion of national carriers. India\'s new economic policies in the early 1990s have triggered far-reaching fiscal, trade, industrial and economic reforms, aimed at accelerating growth, employment, productivity and technical innovations. Safety and security assurances are also absolutely necessary  if international tourism and the airline industry are to thrive. Environment is also an emerging issue to be tackled. This book covers all such issues by eminent authors.

Coming to Space Law, the international environment for space activity has undergone a sea change in the past two decades or so. The process of commercialization and privatization have followed and altered the very course of space activities. Modern space programme requires establishing close working arrangements between government and the private sector which facilitate satellite communications, navigation and position location, remote sensing, data processing, support services and infrastructure etc. Space tourism, intellectual property rights are other emerging issues. The specialists and the academics have combined to provide a concrete vision in this book for a comprehensive legislative and policy framework in India and the world at large. The book should be of much interest to the academic world and to airlines and aerospace industry, as also to the travelling public." (jacket)