Publications

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Legal Issues Concerning the Safety and Security of General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 

Scholarly Articles

Legal Issues Concerning the Safety and Security of General Aviation Airports (2025) National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Legal Issues Concerning the Safety and Security of General Aviation Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 
Airplane Noise, Property Rights, and the Constitution. (1965). Columbia Law Review, 65(8), 1428–1447
Christina O. Morris, Noise Pollution: Attempted Federal Control of Airplane Noise, 18 NAT. RES. J. 621 (1978)
C. D. Hogue Jr., Aviation -- Liability of Airport for Low Flying -- Flights Through Airspace as Taking of an Easement, 25 N.C. L. Rev. 64
(1946).
Aviation Noise Abatement: Federal Control but Local Liability?, 22 URB. L. ANN. 301 (1981)
Kettelson, Ernest S. “INVERSE CONDEMNATION OF AIR EASEMENTS.” Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal 3, no. 1 (1968): 97–110
Wendy B. Davis et al., Hot Air: Undue Judicial Deference to Federal Aviation Administration Expertise in Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Aviation, 69 J. AIR L. & COM. 709 (2004)
Nellie Strong, Aviation Law - D.C. Circuit Allows Stage 2 Noise Restriction Yet Defers to FAA's Interpretation of ANCA: City of Naples Airport Authority v. Federal Aviation Administration, 71 J. AIR L. & COM. 83 (2006)
Magdalena Habdas, Airport Noise as Public Bads: Comparative Remarks on Legal Challenges in Resolving the Neighbor Conflict Between the Airport and Landowners, 87 J. AIR L. & COM. 91 (2022)
Lee L. Blackman et al., The Environmental Consequences of Municipal Airports: A Subject of Federal Mandate, 53 J. AIR L. & COM. 375 (1987)
William Pennington, Airport Restrictions: A Dilemma of Federal Preemption and Proprietary Control, 56 J. AIR L. & COM. 805 (1991)
Colin Cahoon, Low Altitude Airspace: A Property Rights No-Man's Land, 56 J. Air L. & Com. 157 (1990)
Hillary B. Farber, Keep Out! The Efficacy Of Trespass, Nuisance And Privacy Torts As Applied To Drones, 33 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 359 (2017)
Sevinsky, J. A. (1990). Public Nuisance: A Common-Law Remedy Among the Statutes. Natural Resources & Environment, 5(1), 29–60
Stanley L. Lester, Nuisance -- As a "Taking" of Property, 17 U. Miami L. Rev. 537 (1963)
Mary Jo Soenksen, Note, Airports: Full of Sound and Fury and Conflicting Legal Views, 12 Transp. L.J. 325 (1982).
Timothy R. Wyatt, Balancing Airport Capacity Requirements with Environmental Concerns: Legal Challenges to Airport Expansion, 76 J. AIR L. & COM. 733 (2011)
Aviation Noise Abatement: Federal Control but Local Liability?, 22 URB. L. ANN. 301 (1981)
Richard A. Repp, Wrongs and Rights in Superterraneous Airspace: Causby and the Courts, 9 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 460 (1967)
Falzone, Kristin L. Airport Noise Pollution: Is There a Solution in Sight? (1999) Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 26(4), 769

Case Law

Case Studies

Senate Local Government Committee | The Regional Airport Authority: Is It Working for San Diego?

Further Reading

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Concerns and Mitigating Strategies for Aircraft Noise Pollution on Airport Communities
Local Control Over Public-Use Airports Tested in Lawsuit
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Why Effective Stakeholder Communications, Outreach & Community Relations Are No Longer Optional in Airport Management
Neighbors sue Long Beach, demanding tighter enforcement of airport noise ordinance
Touch and goes banned at KTOA
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