These proceedings include papers on: international civil aviation at the crossroads of protectionist and liberal regulation; financial and commercial aspects of air transport; and co-operation and competition between airlines and their affects on the operation of air services.

A new international legal order (NILO) has progressively infiltrated the traditional scope of international law. The essays contained in this book have been written to commemorate the past ten years of the Xiamen Academy of International Law and the emergence of this NILO. They display a remarkable intellectual vitality and illustrate the new initiatives contributing to a NILO in the realm of international law. In addition to new concepts of the use of force, boundary disputes and self-determination, and new judicial practices in environmental law, these essays demonstrate a convergence...