Mismanagement and Misinterpretation: U.S. Judicial Implementation of the Warsaw Convention in Air Disaster Litigation

Development summary

Perry S. Bechky examines how US courts apply the Warsaw Convention in litigation arising from air disasters. The work focuses on problems of judicial implementation and interpretation in that setting.

Its legal framework is the relationship between the Warsaw Convention’s rules on international air carriage and the way US courts interpret those rules in air-disaster disputes. The analysis therefore addresses the point at which international aviation law meets domestic judicial practice.