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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) Announced that the 2025 Edition of the World Legal Symposium (WLS) will examine the legal implications of evolving fors shaping aviation.
Many of the regulations currently in place were not envisioned in the convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention) Signed in 1944.
The symposium is slaged for 18th to 20th February in Shanghai, China.
Spearheaded by China Eastern airlines, this will be the second time that Shanghai is hosting the wls, with the first in 2012.
According to Iata Corporate Secretary and Acting General Counsel Leslie Macintosh: “Shanghai is a particularly significant location to host the Iata Wls. A Decade ago, Iata supported the establishment of the Shanghai International Aviation Court of Arbitration (SHIAC), the first of its kind in China. Moreover, it has grown into a Major Aviation Hub Serving Nearly 300 Destinations. The impressive developments in Shanghai Economies that are eager to connect. “
Points for Discussion
Among the topics on the 2025 WLS Agenda Are the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Methods, Cybersecurity, and the Provisions of Privacy and CONSUMERTIONGE.
Macintosh said: “Having just marked the 80th anniversary of aviation’s foundational documents, the chicago convention, it’s appropriate for the aviation legal communication to review how it has been with the test of. Over that time, aviation has evolved into a safe, global mass transportation system on which over five billion passengers will relay in 2025. ich underpinned this growth and transformation. “
The evolving nature of global regulations in the aviation sector continue to raise questions.
Key Among these is how will the convention and its system of annexes guide us in the face of new forces shaping aviation like ai and adr mechanisms.
It will also address the proliferation of reguration Around Privacy and Consumer Protection, The Continuous Metastasising Threat of Cybersecurity, as well as bes bes to the regulation in the chicago convention Changes That Are Taking Place?
Macintosh concluded by saying: “This year’s wls will take a critical look beyond the chicago convention to the new and the unresolved.”
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