The board of the ford foundation recently announced the award of $250,000 to McGil’s Institute of Air and Space Law in support of a comprehensive programme including teaching, research, the collection of documents, the award of graduate student and senior scholar fellowships and the organization of conferences on air and space law. This award is to be spent over a five-year period with any unused balances not exceeding $10,000 annually to be applied to the international legal studies of the Law Faculty as a whole, notably in the field of public international law, the conflict of laws and comparative law.