Draft:Pablo Mendes De Leon

Education
Mendes holds bachelor's degree in law from the University of Utrecht, Master of Laws, University of Utrecht (specialisation: public international law) and PhD in law from Leiden University on a thesis entitled Cabotage in International Air Transport Regulation.

Career
Mendes began his career at the law firm Barents and Krans in The Hague, where he practised European Community Law, company law and bankruptcy law. He also worked for the EC Delegation at the United Nations in New York. He later moved to the Leiden University where he served as Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law, and also was Director of Air Law Research at the International Institute of Air and Space law.

He is the President of the European Air Law Association (EALA),  Member, Scientific Council of the Aviatian Law Cours, LUISS University, Rome and a Member, Transport Chamber of the Arbitration Center of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Moscow and Professor h.c., Northwest University of Politics and Law (NUPL), Xi'An, China.

Selected publications

 * Le cabotage aérien dans le Marché Commun: Chances et Prévisions

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Implications of the Liberalization of the European Common Market for Air Transport, Capri, May 1989

• Euro-Cabotage: a Lever for Liberalization of International Civil Aviation

Proceedings of the McGill Institute of Air and Space Law Conference on EEC Air Transport Policy and Regulations and Their Implications for North America, Montreal, September 1989

• Air Transport Law and Policy in the Nineties

Editor in Chief of the Proceedings of the International Conference Controlling the Boom, 1991

• The Evolution of the Civil Aviation Relationships of the Countries of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in the light of the EEC Treaty Tijdschrift voor Antilliaans Recht Justica, November  1991

• Cabotage in Air Transport Regulation Thesis, Leiden University, June 1992

•  Air and Space Law: De Lege ferenda

Editor in Chief of the Essays in honour of Henri A. Wassenbergh, June 1992