Library Highlights: Meteoric Matters

Library Highlights

August 12, 2016

Meteoric Matters

Meteors are often used in legal literature as devices to describe an incredibly rare or unlikely event. The Perseid meteor shower, by contrast, is an annually spectacular show and is at its peak right now. Perseid meteors appear as the earth passes through the debris of the Swift-Tuttle comet As you look up to enjoy the display (provided cloud cover dissipates), here's a quick roundup of law review articles that look at legal issues beyond the planet's borders.

Astronaut Scott Kelly posted this amazing photo of the Perseid meteor shower from space last August.
Photo from NASA archive.

Asteroids and Comets: U.S. and International Law and the Lowest-Probability, Highest Consequence Risk, Gerrard, Michael B. , Barber, Anna W. 6 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 4 (1997-1998)
Developing a Law of Asteroids: Constants, Variables, and Alternatives, Roth, Samuel. 54 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 827 (2015-2016)
These aren't the asteroids you're looking for: classifying asteroids in space as chattels, not land.. Tingkang, Andrew. 35 Seattle U. L. Rev. 559 (2011-2012)
Mining the Final Frontier: Keeping Earth's Asteroid Mining Ventures from Becoming the Next Gold Rush, Feinman, Matthew 14 Pitt. J. Tech. L. & Pol'y 202 (2013-2014)
Planetary Defense: The Legality of Global Survival, Kunich, John C. 41 A.F. L. Rev. 119 (1997)
When Wishing on a Star Just Won't Do: The Legal Basis for International Cooperation in the Mitigation of Asteroid Impacts and Similar Transboundary Disasters, Seamone, Evan R. 87 Iowa L. Rev. 1091 (2001-2002)

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