The laws were talking about are connected with the use of the air or more commonly, body of laws governing civil aviation. Spurred by the growth of air transport, the victorious nations of World War I, meeting in Paris in 1919, drew up the International Convention for Air Navigation, commonly called the Paris Convention. This agreement recognized national claims to air space and established rules for aircraft registration and operating safety. U.S. air laws are modeled on the Convention, and are administered by the Federal Aviation Administration. There are also many general conventions and bilateral agreements between nations. In 1944 a conference of 52 nations established the International Civil Aviation Organization, to ensure the orderly growth of international aviation. The successful launching of satellites necessitated the development of space law.

The Federal Aviation Administration(FAA), a U.S. government agency, was formed in 1958 to regulate and promote air transportation. Its duties include the management of air traffic, the promulgation of safety regulations, and the setting of standards for airports and pilots. It assumed many of the functions of the Civil Aeronautics Board, or CAB (established as the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938), and became part of the Dept. of Transportation in 1967. In 1981-82, it took over authority for the limited regulation of domestic routes and fares from the CAB, which was abolished by 1985.

Space law is a set of regulations governing international conduct in space beyond the Earth's atmosphere. This concept was introduced by U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 in conjunction with disarmament talks; established that traditional laws allowing nations to claim any uninhabited lands are not valid in outer space. The Outer Space Committee formed in 1959 in United Nations to promote nonmilitary uses of space and the Outer Space Treaty, ratified in 1967 by 63 nations, prohibited nuclear weapons in space.