Aviation Act Aviation law

Aviation Act is the branch of law that flight, air transport and associated legal and business affairs are concerned. Some of your area of ​​interest overlaps the maritime law and, in many cases, laws aviation is considered a matter of international law due to the nature of air travel. However, the commercial aspects of the airlines and their regulation also fall under the law of aviation. In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulates applied aspects of flight. At the international level, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) establishes general media standards and international concerns to an extent on aviation law. ICAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations.
In the United States and most European nations, aviation law is considered a federal or statewide concern and is regulated at that level. In the US, states can not govern the affairs of aviation in most cases directly but look to federal laws and jurisprudence of this function instead. For example, a court recently overturned New York Passenger Bill of Rights Act because regulation of aviation is traditionally a federal concern. Aviation Act, however, is not in the United States held under the same federal mandate the jurisdiction and maritime law; ie the United States Constitution provides for the administration of admiralty, which does not provide such by the law of aviation. States and municipalities have some indirect regulation on aviation. For example, zoning laws can be applied to require an airport that is located away from residential areas and flights may be limited to certain times of day. State law product liability is not preempted by Federal and in most cases, aviation manufacturers can be held strictly liable for defects in aviation products.
Space law, which governs the affairs in outer space beyond Earth's atmosphere, is a new place field of law, but one that already has its own journals and academic support. As expected, both in space law is connected to the law of aviation.