"Over 120 years of meticulous investigation and product innovation by scores of scientists, engineers, designers, academics, and market researchers worldwide have enabled the development of a truly global commercial air transport industry that both stimulates and responds to complex patterns of...

Commercial airplanes are vectors of infectious disease, advancing, if not sparking, global epidemics and potentially pandemics by exporting pathogens from endemic areas of the world to non-endemic places. For example, according to the global scientific community, the Zika virus was introduced to...

The trafficking of persons -- The migration of the African labour force -- Footbal's regulatory space and the role of FIFA -- Identifying and evaluating the performance of FIFA's anti-trafficking regulations -- Evaluating the social, systemic, and structural factors affecting FIFA's...

Introduction to international aviation law -- Sources of aviation law -- The law and legal systems -- The regulation of aviation -- Contract law -- Tort law -- Employment and industrial law -- Criminal law -- Commercial law and competition law -- International carriage by air -- Airline...

Foundations of Aviation Law -- Early Development in Air Law -- Convention on International Civil Aviation -- International Civil Aviation Organization -- International Air Transport -- Criminal Aviation Law -- Contractual Liability -- Third Party Liability and Damage on the Surface -- Aviation...

We examine the impact of the recent restrictions/bans imposed by several nations on air travel to India in the light of the increasing number of infections amid the second wave of COVID-19. We employ the standard event study method on a sample of 34 airline stocks across seven nations to find...

Harmonising Regulatory and Antitrust Regimes for International Air Transport addresses the timely and problematic issue of lack of uniformity in legal standards for international civil aviation.First, it focuses on discrepancies within the regulatory and antitrust framework and possible...

Brexit and Aviation Law presents the key Brexit-related legal issues for aviation business and administration. The book begins with a discussion of the pieces of legislation that are affected by Brexit and those few that remain untouched. This covers EU primary and derived law, domestic laws, EU...

Dynamic stewardship of air transport market liberalization in Japan / Katsuhiro Yamaguchi -- Should the government control the number of airlines in Korea? / Jae Woon Lee -- China's air transport policymaking : policy objectives, institutions and airlines' political activity / Chrystal Zhang --...

The concern about a level playing field has raised its profile in aviation in recent years, yet few have defined what constitutes a level playing field, or alternatively, what makes a playing field unlevel. In this paper we review elements that are often cited in arguments about whether access...

The concern about a level playing field has raised its profile in aviation in recent years, yet few have defined what constitutes a level playing field, or alternatively, what makes a playing field unlevel. In this paper we review elements that are often cited in arguments about whether access...

This article sketches, conceptually and empirically, the nature and magnitude of the economic gains associated with the impact of legal reform covering the financing of commercial aircraft and aircraft engines as contemplated by the proposed UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in...

This article provides an overview of the UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, applied to aircraft equipment by virtue of a specific protocol. It sketches the historical development of the instruments, their general structure, and their central provisions. It also...

Legal liability claims against airlines and airplane manufacturers following an aviation disaster are determined through a myriad of international treaties, intercarrier agreements, and federal and state laws. Which law applies in a specific situation depends on various circumstances surrounding...

United States foreign policy was characterized by consensus and cooperation on matters involving economic regulation during the first three decades following World War II. But such peaceful coexistence came to an abrupt end during the administration of Jimmy Carter, when confrontation was...

The ICAO is one of the largest specialized organizations of the United Nations. Like the United Nations, the ICAO is comprised of an Assembly of general membership and a quasi-executive Council of more limited membership. Because virtually all nations of the world are parties to the Chicago...

For the purposes of this book, "open skies" refers to a bilateral or multilateral air service agreement that liberalizes the rules for international aviation markets and minimizes government intervention. It can apply to passenger or cargo services or both, for both scheduled and charter air...

U.S. airlines have lost nearly $60 billion (2009 dollars) in domestic markets since deregulation, most of it in the last decade. More than 30 years after domestic airline markets were deregulated, the dismal financial record is a puzzle that challenges the economics of deregulation. I examine...

While the work of formulating a global, pan-sectoral climate change treaty has stalled, the possibility of formulating sector-specific emissions reduction agreement is still available. In this article we propose that a sectoralized treaty to reduce the emissions produced by international civil...

U.S. airlines have lost nearly $60 billion (2009 dollars) in domestic markets since deregulation, most of it in the last decade. More than 30 years after domestic airline markets were deregulated, the dismal financial record is a puzzle that challenges the economics of deregulation. I examine...

This publication is focussed on the nascent industry of drones being used by professional users, more commonly known as commercial drones. While piloted aircraft have dominated the airspace as we know it for about a century, the use of unmanned aircraft by professionals is creating a conflict...

How can we explain an international agreement that fall outside of the win-set of one of the key players? This article surveys the US-EU Open Skies agreement signed in 2007 and asks why Europeans accepted the agreement after having rejected a comparable version three years earlier. Theoretical...