Expert Aviation Law Analysis

The Firm's founder, Timothy M. Ravich, is a leading commentator and contributor to national and international aviation and space issues. Tim is a board certified aviation attorney recognized as an authority on all aspects of aviation law and federal aviation regulations and laws, including traditional areas like airline national security, consumer rights, and aviation planning and policy, together with emerging issues of the law including advanced air mobility ("aam" or "flying taxis") unmanned aerial vehicles ("drones"), advanced air mobility, and commercial space operations. His publications include:

• "Scope and Application," "Article 33, Jurisdiction," "Article 37, Right of Recourse against Third Parties," in Montreal Convention (Edward Elgar 2023)

•  Unlawful Interference with Aviation in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Aviation Law (2023)

• Aircraft Ownership and Registration  in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Aviation Law (2023)

• US Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to "Remote ID Rule" for Drone Flight, Air and Space Law (Wolters Kluwer 2023)

• United States Drone Law in The Law of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Wolters Kluwer 2022)

• Vectors: Immunity in Commercial Aviation, William and Mary Business Law Review (2022)

•  Cabotage and Deregulatory Anomalies, Journal of Air Law and Commerce (2022)

• International Aviation Law and Pandemic, Journal of Air Law and Commerce (2021)

• Notice: Aircraft Lien Law in Florida, University of Miami Law Review (2021)

• Aircraft Lien Law, Florida Bar Journal (2020)

• On-Demand Aviation: Governance Challenges of Urban Air Mobility ("UAM), Penn St. Law Review (2020)

• Privacy Law in the Drone Age: Lowering (Reasonable) Expectations, American Bar Ass'n, GP Solo (2020)

• Introduction to Aviation Law (West Academic 2020)

• Grounding Innovation: How Ex Ante Prohibitions and Ex Post Allowances Impede Commercial Drone Use, Columbia Business Law Review (2018)

• Evolving Law on Airport Implications by Unmanned Aerial Systems (Airport Cooperative Research Program, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017)

• Airports, Droneports, and the New Urban Airspace, Fordham Urban Law Journal (2017)

• Commercial Drone Law, American Bar Association (2017)

• A Comparative Global Analysis of Drone Laws: Best Practices and Policies in The Future of Drone Use: Opportunities and Threats from Ethical and Legal Perspectives (Springer 2016)​
  

• Open Skies, 10 FIU L. Rev. 137 (2015)

• Courts in the Drone Age, 42 Northern Kentucky Law Review 161 (2015)

• Commercial Drones and the Phantom Menace, J. Int'l Media and Ent. L. (2014)

• National Airline Policy, U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. (2014)​

• Anti-Drone Law Unlikely to Promote Privacy, Security (2013)

• The Sunshine State, in Space, Florida Bar Journal (Sept./Oct. 2010)
   
• Aviation Law after September 11th (Vandeplas 2010)
   
• The Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into the National Airspace,
  ​85 North Dakota L. Rev. 597 (2009)

• Deregulation of the Airline Computer Reservation Systems (CRS) Industry, 69 J. of Air Law and Com. 387 (2004)
   
• The U.S. Airline Industry after September 11, 2001, 8 Int'l Travel L.J. 254 (2001)
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• Flight or Fight: The Passengers’ Bill of Rights, 8 Int'l Travel L.J. 102 (2001)