{"product_id":"who-owns-the-sky-stuart-banner-9780674030824","title":"Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1900, a zeppelin stayed aloft for a full eighteen minutes above Lake Constance and mankind found itself at the edge of a new world. Where many saw hope and the dawn of another era, one man saw a legal conundrum. Charles C. Moore, an obscure New York lawyer, began an inquiry that Stuart Banner returns to over a century later: in the age of airplanes, who can lay claim to the heavens? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe debate that ensued in the early twentieth century among lawyers, aviators, and the general public acknowledged the crucial challenge new technologies posed to traditional concepts of property. It hinged on the resolution of a host of broader legal issues being vigorously debated that pertained to the fine line between private and public property. To what extent did the Constitution allow the property rights of the nation's landowners to be abridged? Where did the common law of property originate and how applicable was it to new technologies? Where in the skies could the boundaries between the power of the federal government and the authority of the states be traced? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho Owns the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to tell this forgotten story of elusive property. A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner's book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law--in the past as well as in the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stuart Banner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674030826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674030824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.80w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2009","brand":"Stuart Banner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838259613951,"sku":"9780674030824","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92225475-268e-434a-96b6-ee3f9c8a7b9d.jpg?v=1746589285","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/who-owns-the-sky-stuart-banner-9780674030824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}