Opening Remarks

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The papers in this issue were presented at the IALL's 21^st Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, held at Yale Law School, October 20 through October 23, 2002. The program featured several of America's great scholars in international law and drew on the rich resources of Yale University and its environs. It also introduced participants to the history of legal education in America and included excursions to America's first national law school, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and to the United Nations headquarters, in New York City. A pre-conference reception was held at the nearby Quinnipiac University School of Law Library, on Sunday afternoon, October 20^th, in Hamden, Connecticut, and a post-conference institute on Islamic Law, was held on October 24^th, at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.