[1] She was inspired to take up flying by her brother, parachutist and pioneer movie stuntman Rodman Law,[4] with whom she challenged herself to physically keep up during their childhood.

[5] She received her pilot's license in November 1912, and in 1915 gave a demonstration of aerobatics at Daytona Beach, Florida, before a large crowd.

Flying over Manhattan, her fuel cut out, but she glided to a safe landing on Governors Island and was met by United States Army Captain Henry "Hap" Arnold (who changed her spark plugs in the Curtiss pusher),[8] who would one day become Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces.

After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, she campaigned unsuccessfully for women to be allowed to fly military aircraft.

in the magazine Air Travel, where she argued that success in aviation should prove a woman's fitness for work in that field.

[10] On a morning in 1922, Law woke up to read with surprise an announcement of her retirement in the newspaper; her husband had tired of her dangerous job and had taken that step to end her flying career,[11] and she acquiesced to his demand.

She attributed a 1932 nervous breakdown to the lack of flying, having settled down in Los Angeles, spending her days gardening.