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International Aviation Law and Pandemic
By Timothy Ravich 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...
Profit or Safety: Where Is Outer Space Headed?
By Paul B. Larsen The space powers (the U.S., the European Space Agency (ESA), China, and Russia) are now preparing national space traffic regimes with insufficient regard for the Outer Space Treaty’s (OST) agreed “Principles Governing the Activities of States in...
A Further History of the SMU Air Law Symposium
By Don G. Rushing I was honored to recently receive an invitation from the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Air Law and Commerce to prepare a brief history of the SMU Air Law Symposium. The request was to build upon an article about the history of the symposium’s...
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Using the Artemis Accords to Build Customary International Law: A Vision for a U.S.-Centric Good Governance Regime in Outer Space
By Walker A. Smith International space law is a relatively undeveloped field primarily occupied by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (Treaty). This Treaty, while long on general principles, is short on details. With the United States’ recent push to return to the Moon by...
Keeping Watch from Liftoff to Landing: A Call for Increased Public Education on the Intersection of Human Trafficking and Commercial Air Travel
By Gretchen Mahoney Over the past two decades, multilateral organizations and the U.S. government have fought tirelessly to eradicate human trafficking. Drafting and passing protocols, resolutions, and statutes, these entities attempted to gain the upper hand by...
Immunity Doesn’t Fly: The Case for Federal Responsibility for Torts Committed by Transportation Security Officers
By Courtney Rimann Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) are the Transportation Security Administration’s first line of defense against terrorism in U.S. airways. The American flying public puts their safety, and their luggage, in the hands of these officers, who...
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