Transportation Law

The book collects lecture notes elaborated for the Transportation Law course held by the author during the academic years 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 within the Law Degree Course in European Studies (LM-90) provided in English, at the Faculty of Law, Sapienza University of Rome. The course included 48 hours lectures in each academic year. The lecture notes together with bibliographic materials and relevant regulations were distributed to the students as study material. The structure and content of the book reflect a significant part of these lecture notes. The specific aim of this book is to provide a concise and reader-friendly account of the Transportation Law subject matters examined during the course according to European and International legal sources. In 2019 the lecture notes were published by the same author in a book titled “Transportation Law IUS/06”; Lecture Notes 2017/2018 - 2018/2019, Ancona, 2019, ISBN 979-1220044264, which is divided in five parts as the course programme: Transportation Law: General Aspects, Access to the Transportation Market, Contract of Carriage, Travel and Tourism Contracts and Transportation Insurance Law. The present book encompasses a revised, consolidated and updated version of the lecture notes of following fourth parts of the course programme: Access to the Transportation Market, Contract of Carriage, Travel and Tourism Contracts and Transportation Insurance Law. The book also provides for each subject-matter some of the most significant case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and decisions of the European Commission which have been also examined within the lectures given by the author within the Jean Monnet Module TLCJEU “Transportation Law and Court of Justice of the European Union”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, during the academic years 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. The Jean Monnet ModuleTLCJEU consisted of an innovative and comprehensive treatment of EU Transportation Law through a focused analysis of the activity of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which is one of principal European institutions involved in the evolution and harmonization of EU Law process.