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Full-Text Articles in Transportation Law
Green Amendments Land Use And Transportation: What Could Go Wrong?, Michael Lewyn
Green Amendments Land Use And Transportation: What Could Go Wrong?, Michael Lewyn
Scholarly Works
Numerous states have amended their constitutions to include a green amendment (that is, an amendment providing that the state's citizens have a right to a healthy environment). Unfortunately, the vagueness of these amendments leaves an enormous amount of interpretative power to courts. This article examines how some courts have interpreted green amendments and how these interpretations risk the misuse of green amendments. Additionally, this article examines how such misuse may be avoided.
Surprises In The Skies: Resolving The Circuit Split On How Courts Should Determine Whether An "Accident" Is "Unexpected Or Unusual" Under The Montreal Convention, Ashley Tang
Washington Law Review
Article 17 of both the Montreal Convention and its predecessor, the Warsaw Convention, imposes liability onto air carriers for certain injuries and damages from “accidents” incurred by passengers during international air carriage. However, neither Convention defines the term “accident.” While the United States Supreme Court opined that, for the purposes of Article 17, an air carrier’s liability “arises only if a passenger’s injury is caused by an unexpected or unusual event or happening that is external to the passenger,” it did not explain what standards lower courts should employ to discern whether an event is “unexpected or unusual.” In 2004, …
Law School News: Rewards Of The Road Less Traveled 10-13-2022, Michelle Choate
Law School News: Rewards Of The Road Less Traveled 10-13-2022, Michelle Choate
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
How To Pay Off Hard Work, Juliette Hernandez
How To Pay Off Hard Work, Juliette Hernandez
University of Miami Business Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Motor Carrier Excuse, David M. Cole
The Motor Carrier Excuse, David M. Cole
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Hb 1009: Remote Operation Of Personal Delivery Devices, Laura Bloodworth, Julia Webb
Hb 1009: Remote Operation Of Personal Delivery Devices, Laura Bloodworth, Julia Webb
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act provides for the remote operation of personal delivery devices on Georgia’s highways, streets, bike paths, and sidewalks. It provides the required parameters for operation including parking, time frames, speed limits, safety parameters, weight limits, insurance, and local enforcement through civil citations.
Which Transportation Technologies Do We Want?, Michael Lewyn
Which Transportation Technologies Do We Want?, Michael Lewyn
Scholarly Works
A review of Todd Litman's book, New Mobilities- Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies
Rewriting Our Nation's Deadly Traffic Manual, Sara C. Bronin, Gregory H. Shill
Rewriting Our Nation's Deadly Traffic Manual, Sara C. Bronin, Gregory H. Shill
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Every day, Americans entrust their lives to a road system that is governed by the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (the Manual). On its face, this Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) publication is a straightforward technical document. It contains over eight hundred pages of engineering guidance on everything from traffic-light placement to the font of highway signs. It also establishes acceptable methods for officials to modify speed limits.
While such provisions may sound inconsequential, some of the Manual’s provisions have far-reaching, even deadly, consequences. They prioritize vehicular speed over public safety, mobility over other uses of …
Bursting The Auto Loan Bubble In The Wake Of Covid-19, Pamela Foohey
Bursting The Auto Loan Bubble In The Wake Of Covid-19, Pamela Foohey
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, auto loans outstanding in the United States had soared to record highs. The boom in lending spanned new and used cars and traditional and subprime loans. With loan delinquencies also hitting new highs almost every quarter, predictions that the auto lending market could burst soon abounded. When the economy came to a grinding halt and unemployment skyrocketed in the wake of the pandemic, auto lenders knew they were facing a crisis. Throughout 2020, auto lenders granted more payment forbearances to consumers, while slashing interest rates on new loans. Auto manufacturers similarly made promises to buyers, such …
Transportation In A Changing Climate: Innovating To Create Resilient, Low-Carbon Systems, Vicki Arroyo, Annie Bennett
Transportation In A Changing Climate: Innovating To Create Resilient, Low-Carbon Systems, Vicki Arroyo, Annie Bennett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The climate is changing rapidly, bringing new temperature highs and weather extremes and affecting every individual, community, and sector of society—including transportation. Although, at times, climate change may feel like an insurmountable challenge, humanity is resilient and innovative. Transportation ultimately is about people: connecting people to places, to goods and services, and to each other. Because of its central role in the functioning of society, the transportation system—including its infrastructure, networks, and workforce—is an essential part of addressing and responding to climate change.
This article discusses challenges and opportunities for building resilient and low-carbon transportation solutions in the United States.
Who’S Afraid Of Uber?, Jeremy Kidd
Who’S Afraid Of Uber?, Jeremy Kidd
Articles
Ride-sharing has disrupted the transportation-for-hire industry, breaking down barriers to entry that have protected entrenched incumbents for decades. The disruption has led to calls for increased regulation, along with criticisms about the effect of innovation on consumer safety, market stability, rule of law, and other areas. That disruption, however, has also led to tremendous benefits to consumers as they are freed from a regulatory regime that limited their transportation choices and forced them to pay higher prices for lower quality service. The same type of disruptive innovation is upon us in almost every area of our economy. How we deal …
Accelerating Deep Decarbonization In The U.S. Transportation Sector, Daniel Sperling, Lewis Fulton, Vicki Arroyo
Accelerating Deep Decarbonization In The U.S. Transportation Sector, Daniel Sperling, Lewis Fulton, Vicki Arroyo
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The transportation sector includes light-duty vehicles, heavy-duty vehicles (trucks), off-road vehicles, buses, rail, shipping, and aviation. Reducing emissions in this sector is critical in order to achieve the pathways to zero carbon. Transportation emissions accounted for 37 percent of total CO₂ emissions from energy and industry in 2019. The principal strategy for decarbonizing transportation is electrification (including battery, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen fuel cells) of all light-duty vehicles, urban-based trucks and buses, rail, much of long-haul trucking, and some short-haul shipping and aviation. For long-haul aviation and long-haul ocean shipping, advanced low-carbon biofuels and synthetic liquids or gases produced with …
Critical Issues In Transportation 2019: Climate Change Resilience, Vicki Arroyo
Critical Issues In Transportation 2019: Climate Change Resilience, Vicki Arroyo
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The climate is rapidly changing, bringing more frequent and extreme floods, droughts, and heatwaves, along with stronger hurricanes and more intense wildfires. Each year brings new record-breaking weather extremes; in the first six months of 2019, for example, a record number of U.S. counties flooded. July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded for the world as a whole (1). Climate change is also melting glaciers, reducing the amount of sea ice, and raising sea levels, bringing devastation to coastal areas. From Louisiana to Alaska, many coastal communities are forced to make difficult decisions about whether to relocate …
Anti-Competition Regulation, Anne Fleming
Anti-Competition Regulation, Anne Fleming
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Looking across the long twentieth century, this article tracks the rise and fall of one form of anti-competition regulation: the certificate of public convenience. Designed to curb “destructive competition” in certain industries, such as transportation and banking, certificate laws prevented firms from entering those industries unless they could convince regulators that they would satisfy an unmet public demand for goods or services. This history highlights how lawmakers used similar techniques in governing infrastructure and finance—two fields that are not often studied together. It also shows that state regulation both prefigured legal change at the federal level and then lagged behind …
Mitigating Climate Change Through Transportation And Land Use Policy, Alejandro E. Camacho, Melissa L. Kelly, Nicholas J. Marantz, Gabriel Weil
Mitigating Climate Change Through Transportation And Land Use Policy, Alejandro E. Camacho, Melissa L. Kelly, Nicholas J. Marantz, Gabriel Weil
Scholarly Works
A number of U.S. state and local governments have adopted strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation and land development. Although some have made significant progress in reducing GHG emissions from the power sector, transportation emissions in most states continue to rise. This Article details the range of existing and proposed state interventions to reduce transportation sector GHG emissions, analyzes the trade offs of these strategies, and offers recommendations to improve and supplement such initiatives, including strategic use of planning mandates and funding and technical assistance. Additionally, regulating land use, shifting transportation spending, removing barriers to implementing road …
The Future Of Law And Mobility, Daniel A. Crane
The Future Of Law And Mobility, Daniel A. Crane
Journal of Law and Mobility
With the launch of the new Journal of Law and Mobility, the University of Michigan is recognizing the transformative impact of new transportation and mobility technologies, from cars, to trucks, to pedestrians, to drones. The coming transition towards intelligent, automated, and connected mobility systems will transform not only the way people and goods move about, but also the way human safety, privacy, and security are protected, cities are organized, machines and people are connected, and the public and private spheres are defined.
Law will be at the center of these transformations, as it always is. There has already been …
Roll On, Cyclist: The Idaho Rule, Traffic Law, And The Quest To Incentivize Urban Cycling, Asmara M. Tekle
Roll On, Cyclist: The Idaho Rule, Traffic Law, And The Quest To Incentivize Urban Cycling, Asmara M. Tekle
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Uber’S Dilemma: How The Ada May End The On-Demand Economy, Bryan Casey
Uber’S Dilemma: How The Ada May End The On-Demand Economy, Bryan Casey
University of Massachusetts Law Review
This article is the first to point out that a few relatively low-profile lawsuits involving Uber’s liability under the ADA could have an outcome-determinative effect on O’Connor v. Uber Technologies, Inc., the blockbuster employment misclassification case brought against the startup by its own drivers. Because both types of lawsuits hinge on the role that drivers play within Uber’s business model, a ruling in favor of ADA liability which compelled Uber to exert additional control over its drivers would also, in turn, jeopardize the drivers’ legal status as independent contractors. Such an outcome would be catastrophic to Uber’s core business model, …
The Missouri Student Transfer Program, Howard E. Fields Iii
The Missouri Student Transfer Program, Howard E. Fields Iii
Dissertations
In 1993, the state of Missouri passed the Outstanding Schools Act. This law was created as a means to ensure that “all children will have quality educational opportunities, regardless of where in Missouri they live.” Section 167.131 of this law states that an unaccredited district must pay the tuition and transportation cost for students who attend an accredited school in the same or adjoining district. This portion of the law became known as the Student Transfer Program.
The Riverview Gardens School District (RGSD) was one of three unaccredited school districts in the state of Missouri in 2013. With close to …
Square Pegs Do Not Fit In Roun Holes: The Case For A Third Worker Classification For The Sharing Economy And Transportation Network Company Drivers, Carl Shaffer
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Services And Resources For People Living With Hiv/Aids In The Southcoast Of Massachusetts: “Can’T Get There From Here!”, Jason Potter Burda, Margaret B. Drew, Caitlin M. Stover
Services And Resources For People Living With Hiv/Aids In The Southcoast Of Massachusetts: “Can’T Get There From Here!”, Jason Potter Burda, Margaret B. Drew, Caitlin M. Stover
Faculty Publications
Fall River and New Bedford, two diverse and economically challenged cities in the Southcoast region of Massachusetts, are areas of substantial concern in the effort to reduce HIV incidence and to provide effective services for people living with HIV/AIDS in the Commonwealth. In these two communities, HIV disparately impacts marginalized populations, with particularly high infection and prevalence rates among men who have sex with men and injection drug users in comparison to other Massachusetts localities. This project used community engaged research principles to conduct a community assessment guided by the social determinants of health. The primary goal of this study …
2007 Cnu Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2007 Cnu Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Planetizen Blog Posts September-December 2017, Michael Lewyn
Planetizen Blog Posts September-December 2017, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Need A Ride? Uber: The Trendy Choice That Could Turn Threatening, Emily L. Dyer
Need A Ride? Uber: The Trendy Choice That Could Turn Threatening, Emily L. Dyer
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Regulation Of The Sharing Economy: Uber And Beyond, Jack M. Beermann
Regulation Of The Sharing Economy: Uber And Beyond, Jack M. Beermann
Shorter Faculty Works
On January 8, 2016, the Section held a program entitled “Regulation of the Sharing Economy: Uber and Beyond.” I served as moderator of the program, which included four excellent speakers, Nicole Benincasa, Attorney for Uber Technologies, Inc., Bernard N. Block, Managing Principal, Alvin W. Block & Associates, Chicago, Illinois, Randy May, Founder and President, Free State Foundation (and long-time active member of the Section) and Peter Mazer, General Counsel to the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade and former General Counsel to the New York City Taxicab Licensing Commission.
The program began by asking general questions about regulatory issues concerning the …
Legal Beagle's Blog Archive For December 2015, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Legal Beagle's Blog Archive For December 2015, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
How Suburbia Happened In Toronto, Michael Lewyn
More Market-Oriented Than U.S. And More Socialist Than China: A Comparative Public Property Story Of Singapore, Jianlin Chen, Jiongzhe Cui
More Market-Oriented Than U.S. And More Socialist Than China: A Comparative Public Property Story Of Singapore, Jianlin Chen, Jiongzhe Cui
Jianlin Chen
Compared to the more illustrious conceptualization of private property, the conceptualiza-tion of public property remains at a surprisingly infantile stage. The very definition of public property is ambiguous. This article utilizes a comparative case study of traffic congestion policies in the United States, China, and Singapore to highlight the conceptual pitfalls posed by the current confusion on public property. This article proposes a refined public property framework that offers greater conceptual clarity on the real issues at stake. In particular, this article argues that “property” in public property should include regulatory permits while “public” in public property should not be …
The Road From Welfare To Work: Informal Transportation And The Urban Poor, Nicole Stelle Garnett
The Road From Welfare To Work: Informal Transportation And The Urban Poor, Nicole Stelle Garnett
Nicole Stelle Garnett
Individuals struggling to move from welfare to work face numerous obstacles. This Article addresses one of those obstacles: lack of transportation. Without reliable transportation, many welfare recipients are unable to find and maintain jobs located out of the reach of traditional forms of public transportation. Professor Garnett argues that lawmakers should remove restrictions on informal van or jitney services, allowing entrepreneurs to provide low-cost transportation to their communities. This reform would not only help people get to work, but it could also provide jobs for low-income people.
Modern Transportation Needs And The Prohibitions Of Article X, Section 10 Of The Virginia Constitution, Hon. Stephen R. Mccullough
Modern Transportation Needs And The Prohibitions Of Article X, Section 10 Of The Virginia Constitution, Hon. Stephen R. Mccullough
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.