Studies in international air law : : selected works of Bin Cheng / / Edited by Chia-Jui Cheng.

• Author: Cheng, Bin, 1921-
• TeilnehmendeR: Cheng, Jiarui.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1,219 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Conspectus of International Air Law -- 1. Air Law -- Centrifugal Tendencies in Air Law -- The Regulation of International Air Transport -- General Survey -- Beyond Bermuda -- Dispute Settlement in Bilateral Air Transport Agreements -- The Role of Consultation in Bilateral International Air Services Agreements, as Exemplified by Bermuda i and Bermuda ii -- Air Transport Law: National and International -- Legal Status of Aircraft and Crimes on Board and against Aircraft -- Nationality of Aircraft Operated by Joint or International Agencies -- State Ships and State Aircraft -- Crimes on Board Aircraft -- Royal Aeronautical Society’s Report on Crimes and Offences on Board Aircraft for Submission to the Minister of Aviation -- The Hague Convention on Hijacking of Aircraft 1970: The Legal Aspects -- The Latest on Hijacking -- The Destruction of kal Flight KE007, and Article 3 Bis of the Chicago Convention -- 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 -- Aviation, Criminal Jurisdiction and Terrorism: The Hague Extradition/Prosecution Formula and Attacks at Airports -- Air Carrier’s Liability -- High Contracting Parties in Air Law: Philippson volume Imperial Airways, Limited, Revisited -- The Law of “International” and “Non-international” Carriage by Air -- Wilful Misconduct: From Warsaw to The Hague and from Brussels to Paris -- Compensation for Airline Passenger Death and Injury: The Hague Protocol and The Future of the Warsaw Convention -- Fifty Years of the Warsaw Convention: Where Do We Go from Here? -- An Integrated System of Absolute, Unlimited and Secured Liability for Passenger Injury or Death in International Carriage by Air -- The Birth of the Alvor Draft Convention to Re-unify and Revitalise the Relevant Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air -- Sixty Years of the Warsaw Convention: Airline Liability at the Crossroads -- The Warsaw System: Mess Up, Tear Up, or Shore Up? -- A New-Look Warsaw Convention on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century -- The Warsaw System: The Way Forward -- The 1999 Montreal Convention on International Carriage by Air Concluded on the Seventieth Anniversary of the 1929 Warsaw Convention -- The Labyrinth of the Law of International Carriage by Air: Has the Montreal Convention 1999 Slain the Minotaur? -- The Changing Dimensions of the International Law of Carriage by Air.