1.2 Importance of International Air and Space Law

(1) The connectivity's law — the trade, tourism and migration (the labour flows' arteries) ride the aviation regime; (2) the sovereignty's definition — the airspace column and its limits (the state's territorial integrity's vertical face); (3) the safety's engineering — the SARPs' global harmonisation (the safest transport system's legal machinery); (4) the security's regime — the hijacking-and-terrorism conventions (the 1960s-70s epidemic's answer); (5) the passenger's- and-victim's justice — the liability ladder from Warsaw to Montreal (the crash victims' compensation); (6) the space's order — the lawless commons' prevention: the non- appropriation, the peaceful uses, the falling-objects' liability; (7) the technology's governance — the satellites, the spectrum, the drones, and the new-space economy; (8) Nepal's stakes — the tourism-and-remittance economy's air dependence; the mountain aviation's safety; the satellite-data-and-communications interests.