Feb 26, 2022 | Air and Space Law, Comment, Walker A. Smith
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...
Feb 26, 2022 | Air and Space Law, Comment, Gretchen Mahoney
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...
Feb 26, 2022 | Air and Space Law, Article, Feature, Timothy Ravich
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...
Feb 26, 2022 | Air and Space Law, Article, Feature, Paul B. Larsen
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...
Feb 26, 2022 | Air and Space Law, Comment, Courtney Rimann
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...
May 1, 2021 | Air and Space Law, Comment, Madison L. George
By Madison L. George Abstract Currently, airlines have no legal duty to report an in-flight sexual assault to law enforcement. This lack of a duty to report hinders investigations, prevents victims from receiving closure, and imposes additional liability on air...
May 1, 2021 | Administrative Law, Air and Space Law, Comment, Drew H. Nunn
By Drew H. Nunn Abstract The over-delegation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of new aircraft design certification authority to the very companies seeking such certification has led to a stunning lack of oversight and bending to private economic interests....
May 1, 2021 | Air and Space Law, Article, Caitlyn Georgeson, Matthew T. Stubbs, Military, War, and Peace
By Caitlyn Georgeson and Matthew T. Stubbs Abstract Space infrastructure is now integral to both civilian life and warfare. Belligerents may find great military advantage in destroying a satellite in orbit, but this could have grave consequences for civilians on earth...
May 1, 2021 | Air and Space Law, Article, Simon A. Butt, Tim Lindsey, Transportation Law
By Simon A. Butt and Tim Lindsey Download the full article (PDF) here. Westlaw | Lexis Recommended Citation Simon A. Butt et al., Liability for the Death of Aircraft Passengers in Indonesia, 85 J. Air L. & Com. 573 (2020).
Dec 1, 2020 | Air and Space Law, Article, John L. Sasso
By John L. Sasso Download the full article (PDF) here. Westlaw | Lexis Recommended Citation John L. Sasso, Whose Rights Are They Anyway? Solving the Problem of Extraterritorial Assertions of Authority in the Aviation Industry, 85 J. Air L. & Com. 537...
