Drones in international civil aviation law
Drones and law - Issues and legal insights

The question of unmanned aircraft has long been debated in the history of aviation, since the 1919 Paris Convention on Civil Aviation, since replaced by the Chicago Convention, already addressed it in Article 15.

Since 1944, Article 8 of the Chicago Convention has stipulated that "No aircraft capable of unmanned flight may fly unmanned over the territory of a contracting State, except with the special permission of that State and...