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Published: 26 February 2025

Article by Steven Truxal, Professor of Air and Space Law, and Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University

1944 – 2024

Eighty years ago, while war raged on in Europe, Japan and the South Pacific, there was a fresh breeze of hope in Chicago, “the windy city”. The Conference on International Civil Aviation delivered the Convention on International Civil Aviation (“Chicago Convention”). Signed by 52 States on 7 December 1944, today the Chicago Convention boasts 193 signatories. As the legal blueprint of civil aviation, it covers the world.

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