Space Law

Paul Stephen Dempsey

 

Paul Stephen Dempsey is Tomlinson Professor of Global Governance in Air & Space Law and Director of the Institute of Air & Space Law at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. From 1979-2002, he held the chair as Professor of Transportation Law and Director of the Transportation Law Program at the University of Denver. He was also Director of the National Center for Intermodal Transportation. From 1975-79, he served as an attorney with the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C., and in 1981-81 he was Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the I.C.C. Professor Dempsey has written more than fifty law review and professional journal articles, scores of newspaper and news magazine editorials, and several books. Dr. Dempsey holds the following degrees: A.B.J., J.D., University of Georgia; LL.M., George Washington University; D.C.L., McGill University. He is admitted to practice law in Colorado, Georgia and the District of Columbia. Professor Dempsey was a Fulbright Scholar, was awarded the Transportation Lawyers Association Distinguished Service Award, and was designated the University of Denver’s Outstanding Scholar. He was the first individual designated the University of Denver’s Hughes Research Professor and DePaul University’s Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. The Colorado transportation community named him ‘‘Educator of the Year,’’ and inducted him into the Colorado Aerospace Hall of Fame. From 1979-2002, he was faculty editor of the Transportation Law Journal. He also served on the Editorial Boards of the Denver Business Journal, and The Aviation Quarterly (Lloyds, London), and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the German Journal of Air & Space Law and the Annals of Air & Space Law. From 1986 to 1998, he was host of KWGN-TV’s weekly talk show, ‘‘Your Right to Say It.’’ Professor Dempsey has appeared on the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, ABC World Business Report, NBC Today, ABC Good Morning America, CNN Crossfire, National Public Radio, CBS Radio, NBC Mutual Radio, and other news broadcasting networks in the United States and abroad. His editorials have been published numerous newspapers and news magazines, including Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Dempsey is also Vice Chairman & Director of Frontier Airlines, Inc., and has served with that airline since its birth in 1994. He is Director of the Jordan Centre for Aviation Security and Safety at Queen Noor Civil Aviation Technical College in Amman, Jordan. He was a founder and first Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Certified Claims Professional Accreditation Council, Inc., and President and Director of the Genesee Foundation, Inc. He has also served as a consultant to U.S. and foreign airlines, railroads, motor carriers, bus companies, transportation labor organizations and industry associations, government agencies, and telecommunications companies. Dr. Dempsey has delivered expert witness testimony and studies before the Public Utility Commissions of the states of California, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington, the Province of British Columbia, and the courts of Missouri and Nevada. He has testified before the transportation committees of the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Canadian Senate, and the state legislatures of Colorado, Michigan and Texas.