On Carrier's Liability In International Air Transport

From the moment when the human beings realized their dream of aviation, aviation has been a profession with explicit international features. In the process to carry out the air transport activities, there are not only such public legal problems as the sovereign jurisdiction of different states, and the nationality of aircrafts, but the conflicts of laws in different countries concerning the scope of liability of the carrier, the imputation principle and the judicial jurisdiction, etc. From the Warsaw Convention of 1929, to the Hague Protocol of 1955 and the series of legal documents in the development of Warsaw system, until the newly effected Montreal Convention of 2003, it turns out that part of the rules relating to the liability of carrier in international air transport has been successfully united in the international community. However, it is obvious that with the incessant innovation in air technology and operation, the international conventions will not be able to cover all the problems concerning the liability of carrier in international air transport, leaving much legal gap to be regulated and interpreted by the domestic substantive laws of different countries.This essay is supposed to analyze the evolution of liability of carrier in international air transport and its impact on China's civil aviation industry by examining the development of private law of international air transport.