Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Chia-Jui Cheng -- Preface / Cheng Chia-Jui -- Table of Cases / Editor: Chia-Jui Cheng -- Table of Treaties and Conventions / Editor: Chia-Jui Cheng -- Table of Acronyms and Abbreviations / Editor: Chia-Jui Cheng -- Welcoming Address / Professor Hsiao-Tzu Chang -- 1. Coping with Competition — Profiting Through Partnerships / Taiji Kameyama -- 2. Government Policy and Commercial Strategy in the 21St Century / Michael E. Levine -- 3. The Need to Revise the Bermuda Capacity Formula/The Need to Update the Chicago Convention / Masao Sekiguchi -- 4. The Bermuda Capacity Principle: Does it Still Work? / Jeffrey N. Shane -- 5. Deregulation? / Lu Ruiling -- 6. Policy and Legal Implications of Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation / He Qizhi -- 7. Satellite Communications Systems and Legal Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region / Toshio Kosuge -- 8. Us Space Law: The Practical Implications of Recent Case Law Developments on Minimization of Litigation / Rachel B. Trinder -- 9. The Liability of International Air Carriers in a Changing Era / Doo Hwan Kim -- 10. The Warsaw System: Mess Up, Tear Up, or Shore Up? / Bin Cheng -- 11. The Fate of Passenger Liability Limitation in the Warsaw System / Teruo Sakamoto -- 12. The International Fight Against Terrorism in the Air / Michael Milde -- 13. Foreign Investment in Air Transport in the Emerging Multilateral Era / Paul V. Mifsud -- 14. Responsibility of Airlines / Naoyoshi Fukui -- 15. Competition in International Aviation: The Next Round / Andreas F. Lowenfeld -- 16. Standardization of Safety Requirements / Dirk J. Slijper -- 17. “Open Skies”/”Open Markets”: The Limits to Competition / Henri Wassenbergh -- 18. Ensuring Equal Access to the Benefits of Space Technology for all Countries / Nandasiri Jasentuliyana -- 19. Cooperation and Competition in Space Transportation / H. Peter van Fenema -- 20. Legal Problems of Manned Space Flight / Stephen Gorove -- 21. Protection of the Space Environment — Debris and Power Sources / Carl Q. Christol -- 22. New Sources of International Air Law / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 23. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in Aviation Cases in Japan / Kenichiro Hayashida -- 24. Conflict of Laws in Aviation Insurance / Rod D. Margo -- 25. Aviation Personal Injury Claim Settlement Practice in Japan / Shinichi Okabe -- 26. Settlement of Disputes in Air and Space Law / Pablo Mendes de Leon -- Closing Remarks / Professor Hsiao-Tzu Chang -- List of Speakers, Lecturers and Session Chairmen / Editor: Chia-Jui Cheng -- List of Participants / Editor: Chia-Jui Cheng.

The very nature of international air transportation and outer space activities means that they have an international perspective. This is more evident today than at any time in the past, due to the intensification of trans-boundary trade, the internationalization of the division of work and the acceleration of technological progress. The Asian Institute of Air and Space Law, the Graduate School of Law, Soochow University, Taipei, the International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University, and the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, have instituted international conferences in order to provide a world platform for eminent specialists and scholars. The Tokyo Conference, upon which this excellent collection of papers is based, was concerned with a wide range of legal and practical questions arising from regulatory developments in international air transportation and in the exploration, exploitation and use of outer space and celestial bodies. The main topics of deliberation were: megacarriers in the 21st century, the need to revise the Bermuda Capacity Formula and the Chicago Convention, liability and responsibility in international aviation, safety, security and environment, airline industry competition, legal and political aspects of space transportation and manned space flights, the protection of the space environment and dispute settlement in air and space law. They are discussed in this volume with unparalleled authority.

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