As ICAO Opens Security Week 2026 in Astana, a New Handbook Maps the Law Behind "Secure Skies"
From 20 to 22 October 2026, ICAO's Security Week convenes in Astana, Kazakhstan, under the theme "Secure Skies in a Complex World: Advancing Security in Aviation for All." States, airlines and industry will spend three days on modernising aviation security with AI, cybersecurity frameworks, conflict-zone risk assessment and secure cargo — all feeding into the Third High-level Conference on Aviation Security planned for 2027. It is, in other words, exactly the agenda that a new academic reference on aviation law needs to speak to directly.
Aviation Law, published this September by Hart Publishing and written by Stephan Hobe, Moritz Heile and Carl Crüwell of the University of Cologne's Institute of Air Law, Space Law and Cyber Law, does precisely that. Built on the 1944 Chicago Convention and the ICAO framework, it works outward from settled doctrine — air carrier liability, airport regulation, air services agreements — into the chapters Security Week is built around: dedicated treatment of aviation security, cyber threats and cybersecurity, unmanned aircraft systems, military aviation and space law.
For readers working the field rather than studying it, that structure maps onto real tasks. Airline and airport legal and risk teams can use the cybersecurity chapter to benchmark incident-response obligations against the broader aviation security regime. Counsel advising on drone integration into controlled airspace have a dedicated UAS chapter rather than a scattered patchwork of circulars. And regulators or in-house counsel tracking where aviation law meets space law — satellite-dependent navigation, suborbital operations — get that intersection treated as part of the same volume rather than left to separate specialist texts.
For law school and institutional libraries, the case is straightforward: most existing air law holdings predate the drone, cybersecurity and space law chapters that now define the field's growth edge. A single 2026 volume that updates the whole picture, from Chicago Convention doctrine through to ICAO's current security agenda, is a more efficient acquisition than patching an older collection chapter by chapter.
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Q&A
What does ICAO Security Week 2026 cover?
Held 20–22 October 2026 in Astana, Kazakhstan, it brings together states, industry and international organisations to discuss aviation security and cybersecurity under the theme "Secure Skies in a Complex World," feeding into ICAO's 2027 High-level Conference on Aviation Security.
How does Aviation Law by Hobe, Heile and Crüwell relate to aviation security policy?
It devotes dedicated chapters to aviation security, cyber threats and cybersecurity, situating them within the Chicago Convention/ICAO legal framework that underpins ICAO's own security agenda.
Does the book address drone and UAS regulation?
Yes — Chapter 10 covers the operation of unmanned aircraft systems as part of the broader international aviation law framework.
Is this book suitable for an academic law library's air and space law collection?
Yes. It is a 2026 single-volume reference spanning the Chicago Convention through air carrier liability, aviation security, cybersecurity, UAS, military aviation and space law, written by specialists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Air Law, Space Law and Cyber Law.
Where can I buy Aviation Law?
Aviation Law is available for order directly from CLNZ Books, with secure worldwide shipping and card/PayPal payment.