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Editorial

Year: 2025
Type: editorial
Abstract: The Netherlands has for some years enjoyed a standing in aviation out of proportion to its relatively modest size, and perhaps more reminiscent of the important position the country held in the international maritime market in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.This standing is demonstrated in three, different but interlinked, ways:1. Founded in 1919, KLM became a major player among international airlines, with an extensive route network, impressive traffic figures and global reputation.2. The International Institute of Air and Space Law, established in 1985 at the very much older Leiden University, has developed into one of the leading and most respected academic institutes for the study of air and space law in the world.3.This journal, whose fifth anniversary this Special Edition commemorates, has become one of the most significant and authoritative academic journals worldwide in the areas of air and space law.As to the origins of this journal, according to the late Isabella Diederiks-Verschoor, a pioneer of air and space law, and Professor of Air and Space Law at Utrecht University, the idea for an air law journal was born in a discussion in a car returning from a conference in Brussels in 1973 between her, Wybo Heere, Aart van Wijk and Alain du Perron.These four became the first Board of Editors, assisted by an Advisory Board (of eminent members -Professors Cheng, Lowenfeld, du Pontavice, Sundberg, Videla Escalada and Zhukov, Dr Drion, Dr Fitzgerald and Lord Wilberforce), a Case Law Committee and representatives from the international organizations ICAO, IATA and IFALPA.The first issue of Air Law was published in February 1975, and included articles by Andreas Lowenfeld on CAB v. KLM: Bermuda at bay, and Gerald Fitzgerald on Lease, charter and interchange of
DOI: 10.54648/aila2025032
Author: John Balfour
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4414190356
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