Emerging Litigation Trends in Aviation and Impacts on International Air Law Treaties [“From Conventions to Courtrooms- the legal evolution of global air law”]
This session will explore how evolving disputes, ranging from passenger rights and personal injury claims, financing disputes, and environmental accountability, unruly passenger incidents to cybersecurity breaches, are reshaping the global air law landscape. It will examine the growing complexity of cross-border litigation and enforcement, the influence of legislatures and national courts on treaty interpretation, and the pressure these developments place on established treaty frameworks such as the Montreal Convention, Cape Town Convention and the Chicago Convention.
By analysing recent case law and regulatory responses as well as legislative actions, the discussion will highlight how those trends challenge uniform interpretation of treaties and whether current treaties can adapt to new challenges or require modernization to maintain uniformity and
predictability in international air law.
Moderator:
George Leloudas, Professor, Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University
Panellists:
- Robert Lawson KC, Quadrant Chambers
- Llewellyn Boyer-Cartwright, Founding & Managing Partner Harley James Law firm
- Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid, Partner, Podhurst Orseck
- Juan Carlos Menció, Vice President Legal Affairs and Compliance, LATAM Airlines