LW5665 - Aviation Law | ||||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||||
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. | ||||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 40% | ||||||||||
Examination: 60% | ||||||||||
Examination Duration: 2 hours | ||||||||||
Min. Continuous Assessment Passing Requirement: 40% | ||||||||||
Min. Examination Passing Requirement: 40% | ||||||||||
Assessment will be by coursework, which will comprise continuous performance evaluation, a problem based assignment and a written examination. Applicable to students admitted in Semester A 2022/23 and thereafter2023/24 To pass this course students must obtain an aggregate mark of 50% and a minimum of 50% in each of the coursework and the examination elements of the assessment. Coursework for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the end of session examination. Applicable to students admitted before Semester A 2022/23 and Semester A 2024/25 and thereafter To pass this course students must obtain an aggregate mark of 40% and a minimum of 40% in each of the coursework and the examination elements of the assessment. Coursework for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the end of session examination. The portion of the overall mark allocated to performance/participation in inter-active in class activities will be assessed on the quality of the participation. Assessment criteria for those activities, their nature and their timing will be set out in the study guide/course manual and will be further expanded upon by the course leader. The duration of the examination will be at the discretion of the course leader. The course leader will announce the duration of the examination in the first week of the course. Similarly the course leader will announce whether the examination will be closed book or open book. To enable the full benefit to be obtained from this course, students should attend all of the classes and activities. Assessment will be formative to enable students to demonstrate their capacity to understand, analyse and apply rules and principles and summative to assess ability to synthesise primary and secondary material to solve novel problems. | ||||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||||
| LW5665.pdf | ||||||||||
