New York University bounded out of its academic bed last week with a new, learned periodical, the Air Law Review. It was the first U. S. institution to establish a full school of Aeronautics with help of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Therefore it considered itself having a preemption on academic Aeronautics. Last August N. Y. U. roused itself when Northwestern University at Chicago set up an Air Law Institute on the model of the Koenigsberg Institut für Luftrecht, established in 1924 as the world pioneer. N. Y. U. promised itself a similar institute for next autumn. University of Southern California’s similar decision seemed a murmur from across the continent.
Then Northwestern’s Air Law Institute announced that it would publish an Air Law Review. That was nightmare to N. Y. U. whose Law School Professors had worked long and diligently on such a review. The Law Professors hustled together manuscripts and produced the first U. S. Air Law Review. It appeared last week.
Editor is Alison Reppy, Professor of Law at N. Y. U. Advisors include, besides law teachers, practicing aviation and radio attorneys—John William Davis, William Patterson MacCracken, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Warren Jefferson Davis. Also William Joseph (“Wild Bill”) Donovan, onetime (1925-28) Assistant to the Attorney-General; Manton Davis, General Attorney for Radio Corp. of America; Louis G. Caldwell, onetime Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission.
This second group serves because the Air Law Review gives briefs, reviews, interpretations and general surveys of laws pertaining to every human activity above the earth. Though designed primarily to discuss and report radio and aviation law. within its purview come all things which pertain to the air—air rights for buildings above railroad tracks, the migration of fowl, the calling of hogs at a state line.
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