Aviation Law: Cases, Laws and Related Sources

Paul B. Larsen, LL.M., Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, Montreal. Professor Larsen has practiced law in the U.S. Department of Transportation (1970-1998) and provided counsel to the Administrative Conference of the United States and the Urban Institute. Professor Larsen was a research scholar of the Alexander V. Humboldt Foundation at the University of Cologne in 2010 and at the Max Planck Institute for Private International Law in Hamburg (1997-98). Professor Larsen was a U.S. Delegate to UNCITRAL, UNCTAD, IMO, ICAO, OAS, and bilateral negotiations. An adjunct professor at GULC since 1973, he has taught Aviation Law, Comparative Law, Conflicts of Law, International Law, and Property I and II in addition to the Space Law Seminar. Professor Larsen was an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University School of Law from 1966-69 and a visiting professor at Georgetown in 1978. Professor Larsen is the author of several books on aviation and space law, most recently Lyall and Larsen, Space Law, A Treatise (Ashgate 2009). Joseph Conrad Sweeney, the John D. Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law at the Fordham University School of Law, has taught Aviation Law since 1969, among other subjects. A graduate of Harvard College (A.B. 1954), Boston University School of Law (J.D. 1957), and Columbia University School of Law (LL.M. in International Law 1963), he served as an officer in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps at a naval air station, at the headquarters of the Destroyer Force of the Atlantic Fleet, and in California as well as at naval offices in London and Rome. He practiced law with the Admiralty law firm of Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens and has represented the United States for the Department of State at sessions of UNCTAD and UNCITRAL in Geneva and Vienna and at diplomatic conferences in Hamburg, Brussels, Vienna and New York. John Gillick, his practice is focused on aviation regulatory, finance and litigation matters, representing U.S. and international passenger and cargo airlines, business jet companies, helicopter operators, aircraft manufacturers and other aviation-related businesses. Mr. Gillick is an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches a course in aviation law. He also teaches aviation contract law for the International Air Transport Association, and has taught courses for IATA in Geneva, Singapore, Beijing, Hanoi and Miami for its member airline officials and employees. He also writes and speaks on aviation law and business topics as well as hazardous materials transportation matters at government and industry seminars.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Evolution of the Aviation Industry
Chapter 1: International Law of Air Operations
Chapter 2: Crimes Involving Aircraft
Chapter 3: Economic Regulation of Domestic Aviation
Chapter 4: Economic Regulation of International Aviation
Chapter 5: Carrier Liability to Passengers: International Flights
Chapter 6: Domestic Flights
Chapter 7: Aircraft Manufacturers’ Product Liability
Chapter 8: Air Carrier Liability for Cargo Damage and Ground Damage
Chapter 9: Lessors, Successors, Actual Carriers and Code-Shares
Chapter 10: Litigation Management
Chapter 11: Aviation Security and Airline Travel Restrictions
Chapter 12: Airport Law
Chapter 13: The Federal Aviation Administration
Chapter 14: National Transportation Safety Board
Chapter 15: Governmental Immunity From Liability for Torts
Chapter 16: Aircraft Ownership, Registration, Financing and Bankruptcy
Chapter 17: Aviation Insurance
Chapter 18: Airline Labor Relations
Chapter 19: Environmental Regulation of Aviation: Noise and Emissions
Appendix 1 Convention for the Unifijication of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air;
Appendix 2 Suggested Books on Aviation Law and other Aviation Themes for Further Reading;
Appendix 3 Newspapers and other Journals Appendix 4 Motion Pictures with Aviation Themes;
Appendix 4 Motion Pictures with Aviation Themes;
List of Principal Cases;
Index.