Studies in International Air Law: Collected Work of Cheng Bin

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34515-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 1220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2200 g

Studies in International Air Law: Selected Works of Bin Cheng brings together for the first time the most influential of his many significant works. The selected essays, collected by editor Professor Cheng Chia-Jui, provide a comprehensive survey of international air law, authoritative and pioneering analyses of international air transport, the legal status of aircraft and crimes on board and against aircraft and air carrier’s liability.

Widely acknowledged as the "Father of International Air Law,” Studies in International Air Law reveals the author’s enormous contributions to the science of air law along with his extraordinary intellectual and analytical spirit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng, Chia-Jui

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales See-, Luft- und Weltraumrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forewords

Preface

Acknowledgements

Table of Cases

Table of International Treaties, Conventions and Other Instruments

Table of Regulations, Directives, Acts, Codes, and Reports of the European Union

Table of Statutes, Acts, Codes of the United Kingdom and Other National Legislation

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Biography: Bin Cheng

Introduction

Part 1: Conspectus of International Air Law

1 Air Law

2 Centrifugal Tendencies in Air Law

Part 2: The Law of International Air Transport

3 General Survey

4 Beyond Bermuda

5 Dispute Settlement in Bilateral Air Transport Agreements

6 The Role of Consultation in Bilateral International Air Services Agreements, as Exemplified by Bermuda I and Bermuda II

7 Air Transport Law: National in International

Part 3: Legal Status of Aircraft and Crimes on Board and against Aircraft

8 Nationality of Aircraft Operated by Joint or International Agencies

9 State Ships and State Aircraft

10 Crimes on Board Aircraft

11 Royal Aeronautical Society’s Report on Crimes and Offences on Board Aircraft for Submission to the Minister of Aviation

12 The Hague Convention on Hijacking of Aircraft 1970 the Legal Aspects

13 The Latest on Hijacking

14 The Destruction of KAL Flight Ke0007, and Article 3 Bis of the Chicago Convention

15 International Legal Instruments to Safeguard International Air Transport: The Conventions of Tokyo, the Hague, Montreal and a New Instrument Concerning Unlawful Violence at International Airports

16 Aviation, Criminal Jurisdiction and Terrorism: The Hague Extradition/Prosecution Formula and Attacks at Airports

Part 4: Air Carrier’s Liability

17 High Contracting Parties in Air Law: Philippson v. Imperial Airways, Ltd., Revisited

18 The Law of “International” and “Non-international” Carriage by Air

19 Wilful Misconduct: From Warsaw to the Hague and from Brussels to Paris

20 Compensation for Airline Passenger Death and Injury: The Future of the Warsaw Convention

21 Fifty Years of the Warsaw Convention: Where Do We Go from Here?

22 An Integrated System of Absolute, Unlimited and Secured Liability for Passenger Injury or Death in International Carriage by Air

23 The Birth of the Alvor Draft Convention to Re-unify and Revitalise the Relevant Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air

24 Sixty Years of the Warsaw Convention: Airline Liability at the Crossroads (Part I)

25 The Warsaw System: Mess Up, Tear Up, or Shore Up?

26 A New-Look Warsaw Convention on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

27 The Warsaw System: The Way Forward

28 The 1999 Montreal Convention on International Carriage by Air Concluded on the Seventieth Anniversary of the 1929 Warsaw Convention

29 The Labyrinth of the Law of International Carriage by Air Has the Montreal Convention 1999 Slain the Minotaur?

30 The Changing Dimensions of the International Law of Carriage by Air

Principal Publications

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cheng Chia-Jui LLD (1968), National Athens University, is Professor of International Law. Currently he is also Secretary-General of Xiamen Academy of International Law and Secretary-General of Asia Academy of Comparative Law. He has published monographs and many articles on International and Comparative Law.