Addresses key legal issues in the international civil aviation community, focusing on emerging trends against the background of the 50-year history of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation. Contains chapters on trends in air transport, aviation and the environment, and the role of international law in the suppression of unlawful interference with civil aviation. Subjects include joint financing of air navigation services, computer-generated documents relating to trade transactions as admissible evidence, relief flights and humanitarian law, and surface-to-air missile attacks. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.