Defining international satellite communications as weapons of mass destruction: the first step in a compromise between national sovereignty and the free flow of ideas.

From: Houston Journal of International Law | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Nuttall, Colby C. | Copyright information 
 
  I. INTRODUCTION 
 II. INTERNATIONAL LAW GOVERNS TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
     SATELLITES BUT FALLS SHORT OF PROVIDING A 
     COMPREHENSIVE REGULATORY SCHEME 
     A. Corpus Juris Spatialis Provides Universally 
        Acceptable Authority for Regulating Violent 
        Propaganda 
     B. Various Other Sources of International Law are 
        Contradictory but are Beginning to Compromise 
III. MODERN REGULATION AND REGULATORY PROPOSALS 
     FAIL TO BALANCE THE EXPECTATIONS OF ALL 
   ...

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