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A Golden Age for Us . . . or for the Airlines? Ensuring Robust Federal Consumer Protections to Make Flying Great Again for Everyone
Flying today is not meaningfully better for passengers than it was twenty years ago—and the airlines are largely to blame. Airlines leverage opaque pricing practices and junk fees to extract greater revenue from passengers, while the quality of air travel has deteriorated. Despite its mandate to protect the flying public and the air travel market from deceptive and anticompetitive practices, the Department of Transportation has been largely captured—adopting industry-favorable regulations and procedures while cutting commonsense consumer protections. This Essay examines the airlines’ coordinated campaign to circumvent and dismantle consumer protections, and how the industry have largely captured the federal agency designed to regulate it. We conclude that ushering in the “Golden Age of Travel” requires a rejection of the airlines’ heavy-handed deregulatory agenda and a turn towards passenger-focused consumer protections that restore fairness and accountability to the skies.
Accounting for Spatial Effects and Social Norms in Making Algorithmic Law: Insights from and Applications in Urban Mobility
This Article examines a prominent idea in the law and technology literature: that algorithms and big data can be used to make law dynamic and personalized. As currently envisioned by legal scholars, “algorithmic law” entails laws that adjust in real time to changing conditions and vary across individuals, improving…
The Hard Law-Soft Law Nexus: Autonomous Vehicles as a Case Study
The technology governance debate often focuses on the dichotomy of hard law versus soft law as competing models. Both hard law and soft law have their strengths and weaknesses. But framing soft law versus hard law as a dichotomous choice is often unrealistic—every technology will be governed by a mix…Automobilities, Cultures and the Question of Law
Book ReviewUnsettling Colonial Automobilities: Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties. By Thalia Anthony, Juanita Sherwood, Harry Blagg, and Kieran Tranter. Leeds, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing. 2023. Pp. xx, 195. $110.00. Introduction Unsettling Colonial Automobilities: Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties is a compelling interdisciplinary and multileveled study that sits at the intersection…
Sustainable Mobility in International, European and National Law: A Perspective from Europe
This Article develops a European perspective on sustainable mobility, a concept still underexamined in legal scholarship, and argues that meeting today’s mobility needs while preserving ecological foundations for future generations will not occur without deliberate regulatory intervention. After clarifying the evolution of the core concepts of sustainability, mobility, and sustainable…