AbstractsLaw & Legal Studies

With such intriguing terms as Cosmic Law; Space Law; Metalaw; Anthropocentric Law being quite common place today, it seems that a thesis on the freedom of flight over the high seas is somewhat tame and terribly out of fashion. However, activity in space and flight over the high seas have one big thing in common - they are both badly in need of an international agreement. The main purpose of this thesis is to attempt to prove the great need of a multi-lateral Convention covering flight over the high seas. Despite the phenomenal increase of activities in and claims to the airspace over the high seas during the last twenty years, it is still being regulated by legal thinking which was popular in 1919.