Pioneers of space law / edited by Stephan Hobe.
| Other author | Hobe, Stephan. |
| Other author | International Institute of Space Law. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, [2013] |
| Description | vi, 212 pages : portraits ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Alex Meyer (15/12/1879 - 21/08/1978) / Stephan Hobe -- Eugène Pépin (27/06/1887 - 27/04/1988) / Armel Kerrest -- John Cobb Cooper, Jr. (18/9/1887 - 22/7/1967) / Ram S. Jakhu and Michelle Ancona -- Evgeny Aleksandrovich Korovin (12/10/1897 - 3/11/1964) / Gennady P. Zhukov, Vladlen S. Vereshchetin and Anatoly Y. Kapsutin -- Vladimír Mandl (20/3/1899 - 8/1/1941) / Vladimír Kopal and Mahulena Hofmann -- Andrew G. Haley (4/11/1904 - 10/9/1966) / Stephen E. Doyle -- Daniel Goedhuis (31/1/1905 - 5/10/1995) / Peter van Fenema and Tanja Masson-Zwaan -- Eilene M. Galloway (4/5/1906 - 2/5/2009) / Marcia S. Smith and Jonathan F. Galloway -- Rolando Quadri (22/12/1907 - 2/4/1976) / Sergio Marchisio -- C. Wilfred Jenks (7/3/1909 - 9/10/1973) / Steven Freeland -- Manfred Lachs () / Francis Lyall. |
| Abstract | International space law is less than 50 years old. Although the work on the codification of space law started in the late 1950s, the Outer Space Treaty was only adopted in January 1967. However, much earlier than that, even as early as 1932, the first ideas about legal rules for human activities in outer space were being considered. Very little is known about these early drafts and proposals, and the pioneering work of early scholars in the field remains relatively unknown. This volume seeks to redress this by analysing the biographies and contributions to international space law of eleven such early "pioneers", whose ground-breaking and original work helped to develop the field in important ways. The collection starts in the 1930's with the Czech author Vladimir Mandl, and dwells at length on the 1950's, the early time of space flight. |
| General note | "A publication of the International Institute of Space Law." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013952352 |
| ISBN | 9004240276 |
| ISBN | 9789004240278 (hardback) |