Executive Course on Air Transport Law and Aviation Contracts in LUISS School of Law

Executive Course on Air Transport Law and Aviation Contracts in LUISS School of Law
We are pleased to inform you that also this year Studio Pierallini and LUISS University (School of Law) organize a postgraduate course focused on air transport law and aviation contracts.
 
Course objectives
The course is intended for training specialists in civil aviation, integrating the basic concepts with a deeper analysis of the relevant legislation and considering the major aviation contracts. The course gives a whole vision of the civil aviation sector harmonizing the scientific-academic approach with the professional and institutional one.
The course will be in Italian with lecturers in English.
Certificate of attendance will be awarded.
 
Course suitability
The course is suitable prevalently to:
- Professionals;
- Lawyers;
- Functionaries;
- Public Administration Executives (among others ENAC, ENAV, Authority and Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, etc.);
- Operators of air transport sector (airlines, airports, handlers)
 
Faculty
The course’s innovative nature is guaranteed by an international faculty coordinated by Avv. Laura Pierallini (expert lawyer in air transport law and Professor at LUISS Guido Carli) and composed by:
- Pablo Mendes de Leon, University of Leiden, Director of Institute of Air and Space Law
- Alessio Quaranta, General Director ENAC
- Nikilai Ehlers, Partner Ehlers, Ehlers and Partner, Munich
- Mark Bisset, Partner Clyde and Co, London
- Rob Lawson, Partner Clyde and Co, London
- Ann-Frederique Pothier, Eurocontrol, Brussels
- Noura Roussi, DG Mobility and Transport European Commission, Brussels
- Elda Turco Bulgherini, Professor of Air Navigation Tor Vergata University of Rome
- Mia Wouters, Aviation Law Professor at Ghent University
- Gianluigi Ascenzi, Partner Studio Pierallini
 
Course description
The course is divided into 3 modules lasting 10 hours each, to be held on the following dates and time: 
- First module, 11-12 May 2018: Legal framework and major contracts in the aviation sector
The first module is aimed to provide an overview of the aviation sector with specific focus on the most commonly used contracts, such as: purchase agreements, leasing contracts, ACMI contracts, charter contracts and aircraft maintenance contracts.
- Second module, 25-26 May 2018: Airline Alliances Agreements. Airport Management Contracts and Contracts of Services
This module will highlight the key features of airline alliances contracts and airport management contracts (i.e. ground-handling contracts, service contracts) focus on Directive N 96/67/CE and Legislative Decree N 18/1999.
- Third module, 15-16 June 2018: Air Transport contracts
The third and last module will focus on passenger and cargo air transport contracts. The analysis will take place on the basis of national and international written rules concerning carriers’ liability, as well as general conditions of carriage and passenger rights, with particular respect to the recent European Directive 2016/681, on the use of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime.
 
Friday from 2pm to 8pm; Saturday from 9am to 1pm.
 
Herewith is a link to the ON-LINE APPLICATION FORM
 
For any further information and/or clarification please feel free to contact Studio Pierallini or LUISS University (School of Law)

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