Abstract
The Montreal Convention came into effect in the year of 2003, and replaced in full scale of the constantly amended Warsaw regime, independently becomes a complete and single unified instrument to regulate certain international air carrier's liability. Aside from integrating the main body and several protocols of the previous regime, the Montreal Convention is empowered to modernize the regulations so to cope with the technical progress of aviation industry and the evolution of civil liability rules during such period. The long history and numbers of signatories of the Warsaw regime prove itself as a most popular unified laws convention aiming to balance the risks and interests of the carriers and passengers/consignors in the early era of international air carriage, which is also founded upon the interpretations from legal theories, constant amendments and judicial practice. Such jurisprudence is expected to be followed by the new Montreal Convention in the coming years so to fulfill the functions of a n unified liability regime. Almost every decade certain contemplations and reflections of the Warsaw regime would be conducted to keep the unified law updated and effective. It would also be helpful for us to do the same with the Montreal Convention in terms of its presumed functions and judicial practice now at its ten years anniversary. This article is therefore trying to manipulate such a model but covers limited scale of topics which includes the basic principles and infrastructure of international carrier's liability, the monetary limitations and exclusive jurisdictions, so to reflect in a tentative way the effectiveness of the new regime and its compatibility with local regulations of the signatories.