International ret: transport: verdensrummet og rumfart

A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common Interests

The constitution of WHO (1946) mentions "the highest attainable standard of healthas a fundamental right of every human being." Moreover, taking health as individualrights or basic fundamental right makes it mandatory for a state to provide for thisfundamental necessity of having a decent and dignified life. One of the determinantsof health are ensuring access to timely, quality and affordable medical facilities. Italso includes access to safe drinking water, nutritious food, affordable housing,sanitation, equal treatment of citizens regardless of their gender, caste, religion, race,place of birth at cetera. Health is considered one of the most basic inessentialrequirements of a happy life. If we are not healthy we will not be able to attend ourschool, go to work, complete our family responsibilities or participate in any activityrelated to community. People make sacrifices to guarantee healthy life to them andtheir families. In fact health is one of the three key parameters of human developmentindex.

The objective of this commentary is to explain the provisions of the Montreal Convention in a succinct and concise manner for the daily practice. The history of the Montreal Convention and of the Warsaw Convention serves as important sources for interpretation. The commentary also takes into account the continental-European and US-American case law regarding the liability of air carriers for damage to passengers or goods as well as sources of European Community legislature. The commentary also considers the various ways in which countries implement the air carrier's insurance obligation. In addition to the Montreal Convention, the Montreal Convention Implementation Act, the European Council Regulation on air carrier liability in the event of accidents, the European Council Regulation on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights as well as the European Council Regulation on insurance requirements for air carriers and aircraft operators are presented and explained.

How much law do we take with us? And whose?It's not science fiction. Imagine if you were given the assignment to write a legal code for Mars.Of course, you wouldn't start from scratch. But you wouldn't start with the hundred plus volumes of the New York statutes, either. So what's the minimum? Look at Alaska in 1959. Take out hunting and fishing and you know you have the minimum to run a jurisdiction.Or the Canal Zone, which, while frozen in time, is also the minimum, with a few things subtracted and others added.But these are American laws. Chinese citizens living and working in the Colony may not want to be subject to American law. And why should they? What about European law? And let's not forget Islamic law.There have been a few "international" jurisdictions in history. The international zone in Tangier. Shanghai in the 1930's. There is U.S. case law about what laws apply to crimes committed on ice flows in international waters. The concept of extraterritorial jurisdiction may be discredited, but the time to talk about these things is now, before people start living on Mars.