Dr. George Leloudas

	Dr. George Leloudas Solicitor
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Expertise:
George advises on aerospace liability, aviation disaster management and regulatory issues.  He has hands-on experience with the ongoing disaster management of the Helios Airways Boeing 737 crash outside of Athens, Greece in August 2005.  George is an assistant to the legal counsel of the International Union of Aviation Insurers (IUAI) providing support in relation to the replacement of the Rome Convention on Surface Damage. 

George's doctoral thesis, "Risk and Liability in Air Law" will be published in September 2009.  It is the first book to analyse the relevant international conventions governing the liability of airlines to passengers and third parties on the ground from a risk perspective. Please see http://www.informaprofessional.com/airlaw for further information about the book.

Education:

• PhD, Law, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, 2009.
• Solicitor, admitted in England and Wales, 2008.
• L.L.M. with distinction, Air and Space Law, McGill University, Canada, 2003.
• L.L.M. Commercial Law, University of Bristol, England, 2002.
• BCL, Law, University of Athens, Greece, 2001.  Qualified and admitted to the Athens Bar.

Special Award:

• The Jose Bogolasky Memorial Prize for achieving the highest grade in Public International Air Law awarded by the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, Canada, 2003.
• Best Student Paper Award for "Legal Aspects of Aviation Risk Management" at the Aviation Management Education and Research Conference organised by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and Concordia University, Canada, 2003.

Professional Affiliations:

• Member of Athens Bar Association.

Publications:

• Author of Risk and Liability in Air Law to be published by Informa Law in September 2009.
• Co-author with Sean Gates of "Accident Investigation Under the Chicago Convention - Time for Revision", published in The International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers, 2006.
• Co-author with Sean Gates of "DVT Litigation - The End of the Runway?", published in the International Travel Law Journal, 2005.
• Co-author with Dr. Louis Haeck, Assistant Director of IATA's Risk Management Department of "Legal Aspects of Aviation Risk Management", Annals of Air and Space Law, Vol. XXVIII, 2003. 

Lecturing:

• Editor of the "Annals of Air and Space Law" (AASL), ongoing.
• Guest lecturer on aviation law, Bad Honnef International University, Germany, 2006-2007.
       

Languages:
Native Greek speaker.

Interests:
George has a degree in classical guitar, and plays in solo recitals as well as in chamber music ensembles. For a change of pace, he enjoys soccer, basketball and squash.

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