Fonds comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal, academic, and professional activities as a jurist, judge, and professor. Records include those related to Macdonald's involvement with Osgoode Hall, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, Peking University, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Records types include correspondence; meeting minutes and agendas; research materials; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clippings; manuscripts; and off-prints.
File includes Ronald St. John Macdonald's article "protecting human rights in emergency situations: making article 15 work", a Council of Europe committee of experts for the improvement of procedures for the protection of human rights meeting report, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with Emile K.M Yakpo. File includes meeting minutes of the African Society of International Law and of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Robert W. Reford, Murray R. Maynard, Dagmar Wichmar, J. Alex Langford, Roland Michener, and others. File includes Canadian Institute for International Affairs meeting notices, agendas and minutes from the period between 1971 and 1979.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Eli Whitney Debevoise, John Lawrence Hargrove, W.H. Montgomery, Bryan F. MacPherson, Tad Daley, Michael P. Scharf, and others. File includes the American Society of International Law letter to members from 1961 to 1962, and 1971, a notice of proposed amendments to the constitution of the society, a photocopy of the American Society of International Law newsletter of May to July 1986, an issue of the American Society of International Law interest group on the United Nations decade of international law newsletter of December 1992, February 1993, and March 1995, an issue of the American Society of International Law newsletter of January to February 1995, a World Association for World Federation special report of November 1989.
File contains reports, correspondence, bulletins, handwritten notes, lists, meeting minutes, and other materials related to the subject. File includes three issues of the American Society of International Law newsletter from the period between 1975 to 1978.
File contains records related to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights, Dalhousie University, and Canada's constitution revision. File includes photographs of a group of unidentified individuals and letters between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Paul Martin.
File contains the Canadian Institute of International Affairs monthly reports on Canadian external relations, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs news and views on world affairs notes, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs programme notes, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs annual report for 1968-1969, and other materials related to the subject. Includes John F. Sokol's paper "factors that have conditioned Mexican political patterns", a Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea newsletter attached to a note from Prof. Dr. Barbara Kwiatkowska addressed to Ronald St. John Macdonald and a United Nations general assembly resolution of January 2000.
File contains reports developed by the International Law Association International committee on legal aspects of long-distance air pollution. File includes reports collected by Ronald St. John Macdonald that are related to subjects of the International Law Association International's interest.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including A.J. Lang, Lord Denning, H.H. Marshall, R.J. Lands, Hazy Fox, and others. File includes meeting notices, meeting agendas, and a report from the British Institute of International and Comparative Law Council of Management, and other printed materials.
File contains a Dalhousie University memo from Dianne Pothier regarding the negotiation between Dalhousie University and Dalhousie Faculty association in 1988. File includes seven Dalhousie Faculty Association newsletters on the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Leslie C. Green, Charles M. Dalfen, Alice Desjardins, Ross T. Clarkson, Donat Pharand, K.R. Simmonds, William C. Graham, R.W. MacDowell, A.W. Robertson, M. Debicki, Rene-Jean Dupuy, Gilles Lalande, P.F. Little, John H. Currie, Arch MacKenzie, A.E. Gotlieb, Ivan L. Head, Kenneth Jarvis, Maxwell Cohen, Jorge Castaneda, N.A.M MacKenzie, Paul Mahoney, M.L. Jewett, Stanislas Slosar, Donald J. Fleming, and others. File includes Canadian Council on International Law reports, research proposals, meeting agendas and minutes, bulletins, and other materials. File contains correspondence about John Thomas Peters Humphrey's will and a photocopy of the will.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Rene Jean Dupuy, M. de Massas, and others. File includes typescripts related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including P.J.G. Kapteyn, Bob Lagerwaard, and others. File includes printed materials and typescripts related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Mary Sun, Ko Swan Sik, Peter Malanczuk, and others. File includes other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Robert Jennings, Maurice Glele, Rudolf Bernhardt, Andronico O. Adede, Francisco Orrego Vicuna, C.F. Amerasinghe, Christiane Bourloyannis, A.H.A. Soons, Jean-Claude Aime, Erik Jayme, and others. File includes the resolution of the Council of Delegates of November 1991 and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Edward McWhinney, Robert Jennings, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, H.G. Schermers, Christian Dominice, Emile K.M. Yakpo, Frank B. Vischer, Pierre Lalive, Jaroslav Zourek, Shabtai Rosenne, Suzanne Bastid, Florentine P. Felicano, Hector Gros Espiell, John King Gamble, and others. File includes two Council of Europe reports from 1996 and 1997. File includes handwritten notes, meeting minutes, reports, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Lord Wilberforce, Cecil J. Olmstead, Nicolas M. Matte, George Worsley, J.B.S. Edwards, Maurice Strong, H.R. Kulz, Dante A. Caponera, and others. File includes meeting minutes and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including M. Teresa, M.C.W. Pinto, Jacqueline Dauchy, Leo Nevas, Avard Bishop, and others. File includes two issues of the Disarmament Times periodical of September and October 1990 and the issue vol. 9, no. 3, November 1989 of Science for Peace Bulletin.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Lucius Caflisch, Mohammed Munavaar, A. Rohan Pereira, Emile K.M. Yakpo, and others. File includes newspaper clippings and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Howard N. Meyer, M. LeSueur Stewart, Frank A. Bauman, William R. Slomanson, Burns H. Weston, Gordon A. Christenson, Charlotte Ku, Rudolf Bernhardt, Shabtai Rosenne, and others. File includes handwritten notes, typescripts, and other materials related to the subject. File includes an annotated draft of Ronald St. John Macdonald's article "the United Nations Decade of International Law".
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including John H. Proctor, Carl-Goran Heden, Frances Van Sant, Alexander King, Richard W. Palmer, and others. File includes the World Academy of Art and Science News of June 1988 and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals including George J. Andreopoulos, Susan Ashely, Jeff Berryman, Avard L. Bishop, Charles B. Bourne. Christine Boyle, Donald E. Buckingham, David R. Chipman, Innis Christie, H.C. Charles, George F. Curtis, Audrey Davis, L.C. Green, Joan Lax, Robert M. Libman, David O'Toole, Jill Sjlossberg, Wilbur Fee Bowker, Shigeru Oda, Manfred Nowak, Annemieke Holthuis, J. Robert S. Prichard, John King Gamble, P.R. Ghandhi, James S. Palmer, John A. Yogis, Philip Girard, Christopher J. Maule, Yves Sandoz, Manfred Lachs, J.P. Gardner, Emile K.M. Yakpo, Mary B. Del Bene, Robert A. Stein, Paul M. Moore, Mieke Malmberg, Donald K. Anton, Paul Martin, Anne Moreau, J.P. Gardner, Maxwell Cohen, Donat Pharand, Angus M. Gunn, Errol Mender, Fritz von Klein, Michael Oliver, Angus Matthews, Donald M. McRae, Poungthong Onoora, Federico Mayor, John Turner, H. Scott Fairley, Nicolas Valticos, Bruce P. Archibald, Ted McWhinney, Jim Smith, Kristina Jensen, Mildred Macdonald, Norman MacDonald, Kathleen E. Mahoney, Peter P. Mercer, Gerald L. Morris, Archbishop Edard E. Scott, Ivor C. Jakson, Denise Reaume, Andreas I. Psomas, Judith Oudejans, John P. Humphrey, Constance E. Robinson, Robert J. Sharpe, Scott MacDougall, Noel A. Kinsella, Lorenne M.G. Clark, Joan Lax, Irwin Cotler, Patricia Strong, Charles A. Armour, Faye L. Woodman, Daniel Vignes, Ann Saddlemyer, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Bron Alexander McKillop, Teresa Tom, Catherine Munsch, Guimei Bei, Stephen M. Schwebel, Robert Keith Rae, Conrad M. Black, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects. File includes Myrna Lee Ann Gillis' resume, Paul John Mahoney's resume, William Christopher Gilmore's resume, Daniel Vignes' resume, Bron Alexander McKillop's resume, Catherine Munsch's resume, three British Institute of International and Comparative Law meeting minutes of July 1990, July 1991, and April 1994, a University of Toronto Faculty of Law Council meeting minute of April 1991, a photograph of Poungthong Onoora's sons Pop in 1994, two photographs unidentified individuals at a European Court of Human Rights session in the 1990s.
File contains the Canadian Association of Law Teachers bulletins from the period between January 1988 to May 1991. File includes a draft proposal for a centre for studies in Canadian legal education developed by Niel Gold and John MacLaren, a report by the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Special Advisory Committee on equality in legal education, and other materials related to the subject.
Subseries contains Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence with different individuals, including John Holmes, Paul Martin, Maxwell Cohen, Roland Michener, D.W. Fulford, Donald S. Macdonald, Charles B. Bourne. Christine Boyle, Donald E. Buckingham, David R. Chipman, Innis Christie, H.C. Charles, George F. Curtis, Audrey Davis, L.C. Green, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects.
