1.3 Historical Development of Air Law: Paris Convention, Regional and PrivateConference on International Air Law

The genealogy (the exam's tour): (i) the pre-1914 era — the balloon-and-airship age's first doctrinal debates (the 1910 Paris Commission's failure: the sovereignty-vs-freedom divide already drawn); (ii) the Paris Convention 1919 — the first general convention (the CINA — the permanent commission; the Article 1 sovereignty; the nationality-and-registration; the innocent- passage freedom for private aircraft's faces); (iii) the interwar development — the IATA's birth (1919, the private order), the regional-and-private conferences' layer (the bilateral traffic agreements' beginnings; the 1928 Havana Convention's regional face); (iv) the ChicagoConference 1944 (the 52 states' post-war redesign — Unit 2); (v) the liability line's growth (Warsaw 1929 → the modern ladder, Unit 4) and the security line (Tokyo 1963 → Beijing 2010, Unit 5); and (vi) the modern era — the liberalisation (the open-skies wave), the ICAO's standard-setting maturity, and the technology's new frontiers (the drones, the environment's faces — Unit 7).