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Who owns the moon? : extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership

Title
Who owns the moon? : extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership / Virgiliu Pop.
Author
Pop, Virgiliu, 1974-
Publication
[New York] : Springer, ©2009.

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Description
xi, 175 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the celestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership. In lay terms, it aims to find an answer to the question "Who owns the Moon?" After critically analyzing and dismantling with legal arguments the trivial issue of sale of extraterrestrial real estate, the book addresses the apparent silence of the law in the field of landed property in outer space, scrutinizing whether the factual situation on the extraterrestrial realms calls for legal regulations. The legal status of asteroids and the relationship between appropriation under international law and civil law appropriation are duly examined, as well as different property patterns – such as the commons regime, the Common Heritage of the Mankind, and the Frontier paradigm.
Series Statement
Space regulations library ; v. 4
Uniform Title
Space regulations library ; v. 4.
Subject
  • Space mining > Law and legislation
  • Natural resources > Law and legislation
  • 86.95 air and space law
  • International law
  • Space law
  • Moon
  • Natural resources
  • Property law
  • Space
  • Property
  • Moon > International status
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-171) and index.
Contents
Is the moon for sale? -- The sources of landed property rights in outer space -- The object of landed rights in outer space -- The relationship between property and sovereignty in outer space -- The common regime : everybody's and nobody's -- Homesteading the final frontier -- The common heritage of mankind : reaping without sowing -- Property status of extraterrestrial samples and extracted resources.
ISBN
  • 1402091346
  • 9781402091346
  • 9789048180752
  • 9048180759
  • 9781402091353
  • 1402091354
LCCN
2008935661
OCLC
  • ocn268931915
  • 268931915
  • SCSB-1500559
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library