Professor Havel attends EU passenger rights workshop in Belgium

International Aviation Law Institute Director Brian Havel participated in a workshop marking the 10th anniversary of the European Union's air passenger rights legislation. Held in Bruges, Belgium on September 27, the workshop was co-organized by the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and the College of Europe in Bruges.

The workshop featured national reports from many EU Member States on the implementation of the EU legislation over the past decade. Professor Havel presented the only non-EU report, discussing creative efforts by U.S. lawyers to try to apply the EU legislation extraterritorially in U.S. courts and also surveying the spread of "copycat" legislation throughout the world.

Co-chair of the workshop, Professor Jeremias Prassl of Magdalen College, Oxford, is a frequent participant in the institute's activities. He has contributed a number of pieces to Issues in Aviation Law & Policy, the institute's academic journal, and has taught the law of EU air passenger rights in the Institute’s advanced seminar in international aviation law.