Aviation is experiencing an incredibly fast growth in a globalized and very competitive environment. Both private entities and public institutions take part to the main sector’s challenges combining public policies, private interests and international issues. Regional and international regulation authorities, airlines and alliances, airports operators, aircraft manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers are facing a growing number of complex problems and have to deal with more legal and regulatory issues. In this context, the demand for qualified legal expertise is increasing.

This course aims to examine the legal and regulatory regime, both international and regional, governing air transport through different stakeholder’s perspectives: states (Chicago convention, international organization such as ICAO, freedoms of the air, open sky agreement, aviation security), passengers (contract of carriage, Warsaw-Montreal liability regime), airlines (aircraft financing, liability, staff status, competition rules), aircraft manufacturers (contracts, liability, competition) and airports (management, ownership models). This course also addresses litigation and arbitration issues related to aviation sector.