Submissions from 2019
The 1,500-Hour Rule: When Does Quantity Outweigh Quality?, Andrea Traut
Geophysical Trespass, Privacy, and Drones in Oil and Gas Exploration, Sean Valentine
Submissions from 2018
Pioneering the Right to Breastfeed at 35,000 Feet: Workplace Accommodations for Lactating Employees in the Airline Industry, Brooke L. Hauglid
Make Airlines Great Again: Why Bankruptcy Went From a Dirty Word to a Strategy, and a Proposal to Bring It Back, Klayton Sweitzer Hiland
War and (Labor) Peace: How the Ninth Circuit Changed the Rules of Engagement for Service Providers and Organized Labor, Klayton Sweitzer Hiland
The FAA’s Mental Health Standards: Are They Reasonable?, Katie Manworren
Here Comes the Boom: Reevaluating the Merits of FAA Prohibition on Civil Supersonic Flight, Jonathan Petree
Navigating the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Considerations of Equitable Impact After United States v. Trinidad, Jonathan Petree
Tax Reform Up in the Air: Redefining the Test for Qualification of an Air Carrier for Sales Tax Exemption, Daniel W. Sepulveda
Airport Security Screeners: In Your Face and Above the Law, Luke Strieber
Safety Meets Efficiency: The Medical Device Drone’s Role in Bringing About a Workable Regulatory Framework for Commercial Drones, Luke Strieber
Presuming Patent Inventorship Without Further Examination: A Double-Edged Sword for Aerospace Companies, Jake Winslett
Submissions from 2017
Mixed-Motive Mix-Up—Non-Prevailing Party Attorney’s Fees Under Texas Antidiscrimination Law “Up in the Air” After Fifth Circuit’s Peterson v. Bell Helicopter, Alexander P. Cohen
Sharing the Skies: The Legal State of “Flight-Sharing” After Flytenow and Current Regulatory Issues with Lyfting the Sharing Economy Off the Ground, Alexander P. Cohen
“Fly The Friendly Skies”: How Implementing a Private Security System Can Improve the Safety of the Nation and an Industry, Courtney Luster
The Warsaw Convention: When Falling Is Not an “Accident”, Courtney Luster
FAA Waiver-of-Sanctions Defense—Boeta Clouds the Clearing Horizons of Inadvertent Acts, Catherine Parsley
Flying While Intoxicated: Options for Pilots, Airlines, and the FAA in Dealing with Alcohol Issues, Catherine Parsley
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction—Warning: Second Circuit Breaks with Supreme Court Trend for Stricter Presumption Against Extraterritoriality, Alexandra R. Rahn
Air Traffic Control in the United States: Is Privatization the Path Back to the Top?, Lindsey Rattikin
Securities Regulation—Tenth Circuit Allows Lying Executives to Escape Section 10(b) Liability, Leaving Investors Remediless, Robert C. Uhl
Air Ambulance Reform – Why Congress Should Exempt Air Ambulances From “Carrier” Classification and Preemption Under the Airline Deregulation Act, Andrew J. Upton
Submissions from 2016
Employment Law - A Union's Duty of Fair Representation in Pilot Seniority Negotiations, Kelly Almeter
Wright is Still Wrong: The Wright Amendment Reform Act and Airline Competition at Dallas Love Field, Barrett V. Armbruster
Hijacking Open Skies: The Line Between Tough Competition and Unfair Advantage in the International Aviation Market, Hannah E. Cline
Fingerprints: A New Means of Identification in Airport Security Screening, Chase Hilton
Unfair Treatment for Experienced Pilots— How the Ninth Circuit Promoted Age Discrimination, Dana Hilzendager
Safety in the Sky: Will Reforming and Restructuring the TSA Improve Our Security or Merely Infringe on our Rights?, Katherine A. Lowe
Federal Preemption—The Hazy Line of Common Law Claim Preemption Under the Airline Deregulation Act, Jessica Mannon
Food Allergies on Flights - How a Narrow Interpretation of "Service" Preemption Under the Airline Deregulation Act Could Give Allergic Passengers Much Needed Protection, Laci Verdusco Resendiz
Busted Benefits—The Seventh Circuit Honors Explicit Contractual Terms of United’s Mileageplus Benefits Program, Abigail Storm
Submissions from 2015
Freedom to Fly: An Analysis of the Constitutional Right to Air Travel, Lindsay Ray Altmeyer
The Montreal Convention - The Eleventh Circuit Embraces Airlines' Practice of Bumping to Deny Plaintiffs' Recovery for Personal Injury under Article 17, Lindsey Ray Altmeyer
Transparency of Airline Ancillary Fees: Market Incentives for an Industry-Based Solution, Leslie Brockhoeft
A Slip of the Tongue: How the Supreme Court Placed Airline Immunity in the Clouds, Chase Cobern
Breadth of the ADA Preemption Provision - Morales and Wolens Reaffirmed and the Extension to the Common Law, Hannah Mason
The FAA's Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft, Drew Palmer
The Montreal Convention's Statute of Limitations - A Failed Attempt at Consistency, Allison Stewart
Employment Law - The FAA's Exemption from the FLSA-Mandated Overtime-Pay Provision after the Appropriations Act of 1996, Wendy Wilkins
Submissions from 2014
Good Intentions, Bad Results, and Ineffective Redress: The Story of the No Fly and Selectee Lists and a Suggestion for Change, Eric Hedlund
Air Travel and the No Fly List - The District of Oregon Recognizes a Constitutional Right to Fly, Emily Leezer Landeros
On What Authority: Customs and Border Protection's Unwarranted War on Private Aviation, Heather McKinney
The Future of Airline Mergers after the US Airways and American Airlines Merger, Catherine A. Peterman
Relaxing Restrictions on Cuba: More Air Travel Now than Before, Jennifer Smiley
Sleeping on the Job - A Critical Analysis of the FAA's Cargo Carve-out under F.A.R. 117 and the Simple Solution That No One Is Talking about, Kelsey M. Taylor
Grounded at the Pleading Stage: How Do TSA Agents Assess a Peaceful Protest versus a Disruptive One, Peter Thompson
FAA Endorsements - Escaping Judicial Review - the Second Circuit Rules That an Endorsement of Panel Recommendations Is Not a Final Order, J. Bryan White
Submissions from 2013
A Waste of Judicial and Agency Resources - The FAA's Painstaking Compliance with Regulations Governing the Hangar 24 Project, Laura L. Arbeiter
Floating toward a Sky Near You: Unmanned Aircraft Systems and the Implications of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Brandon Bellows
The TSA's New Precheck Is Beginning to Look a lot like CAPPS II: The Privacy Implications of Reviving the Tenets of the Failed Predecessor, Katie Cristina
Federal Tort Claims Act - Seventh Circuit's LeGrande Opinion Is Almost a Knockout, Blake Feikema
Employment Law - Retired Pilots Awarded Monetary Interest on Delayed Lump Sum Pension Payments, Christopher W. Lambert
American Airlines' Bankruptcy - Is American Ready for Takeoff after Rejecting Its Collective Bargaining Agreement, Matthew T. Moran
General Aviation Accident Rate: How General Aviation Differs from Commercial Airline Flight and How to Correct the Discrepancy, Michelle Northcutt
Commercializing Space: Intellectual Property Concerns with Space Act Agreements, Bryan Parrish
Focusing on ADHD: A Second Look at the FAA's Ban on ADHD Medication in the Cockpit, Baine Sellers
Tort Claim Preemption under the Airline Deregulation Act - Courts Still Struggling with the Meaning of Services, Baine T. Sellers
Submissions from 2012
Get off My Plane: The Need for Extreme Deference to Captains and Crews on International Flights under the Tokyo Convention of 1963, Jordan Campbell
Environmental Impact Statements - The Ninth Circuit Narrows the No-Growth-Inducing-Impacts Exception, John Carse
Remembering How to Fly: How New Pilot Training Requirements May Do More Harm than Good, Jane Cherry
The Airline Deregulation Act and Preemption - Determining Whether Curbside Baggage Check has a Significant Impact upon a Carrier, Lorelee Dodge
Maintaining Privacy in a World of Technological Transparency: The BARR Program's ups and downs in Changing Times, Olga Gurtovaya
Flying with Blinders On - The District of Columbia Circuit Allows TSA to Ignore Evidence Unfavorable to its Financial Interests, Allyn E. Hurley
Death on High Seas Act - Defining DOHSA's Applicability to Noncommercial Aircraft Accidents, Susan Roxanne Jett
Employment Law - The Fifth Circuit's Shaky Landing Prohibits a Hostile Work Environment Claim under USERRA for Pilots with Military Obligations, Jennifer Staton
Grounding the Cape Wind Project: How the FAA Played into the Hands of Wind Farm Opponents and What We Can Learn from It, Heidi Willers
Submissions from 2011
Faith or Flight: A Religious Dilemma, Colleen Deal
Flightcrew Member Duty and Rest Requirements: Does the Proposed Legislation Put to Rest the Concern over Pilot Fatigue, Natalie N. DuBose
Twombly and Parallel Conduct - How the Sixth Circuit Grounded In re Travel Agent Commission Antitrust Litigation, Natalie N. DuBose
Will the Ban on In-Flight Cell Phone Use Be up in the Air Much Longer, Sarah Lopano
The Temporary Presence Defense to Patent Infringement and Its Applicability to Airline Security Patents, Scott Poteet
Pilots Denied Relief - By Narrowly Construing Prevailing Parties under the EAJA, the D.C. Circuit Allows the FAA to Run Amok, Scott Lars Rogers
The 2010 NASA Authorization Act: Legislators as Rocket Scientists and Other Implications for America's Human Spaceflight Program, Jason S. Sharp
Submissions from 2010
Jurisdiction - Determining the Line between OCSLA and DOSHA - In an Already Murky Area of the Law, the Fifth Circuit Leaves Open More Questions than It Answers, Amy Cawthon Bellah
Private Commercial Space Transportation's Dependence on Space Tourism and NASA's Responsibility to Both, Thomas Brannen
The National Mediation Board's Rule Proposal for Representation Elections: If It Ain't Broke..., Kyle Burke
The Aviation Industry and the Transmission of Communicable Disease: The Case of H1N1 Swine Influenza,, Courtney Clegg
Bumping Passengers - Airline Service That Just Doesn't Fly, Aubrey B. Colvard
Trying to Squeeze into the Middle Seat: Application of the Airline Deregulation Act's Preemption Provision to Internet Travel Agencies, Aubrey B. Colvard
Why Airlines Should Be Afraid: The Potential Impact of Cap and Trade and Other Carbon Emissions Reduction Proposals on the Airline Industry, Tate L. Hemingson
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Problem: The Impact of Bird Strikes on the Civil Aviation Industry, Amanda Thompson
Submissions from 2009
Regulating Safety - Can the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration Improve the Safety of EMS Flights, J. Cade Hamner
Beyond Orwell: The Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Domestic Surveillance Operations, Paul McBride
Obesity, Canada's One Passenger One Fare Rule and the Potential Effects on the U.S. Commercial Airline Industry, Avery Williams
Antidiscrimination Law - In the Face of Racial Profiling, the First Circuit Holds that Longstanding Antidiscrimination Principles Must Yield to Airline Safety: Cerqueira v. American Airlines, Inc., Benjamin D. Williams
Playing the Slots: The FAA Gambles with Its Controversial Congestion Management Plan for New York's Busiest Airports, Benjamin D. Williams
