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 contains correspondence about Ronald St. John Macdonald's trips to China - which started as part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) assignment to strengthening training and research in selected key universities in China - with different individuals, including Bai Gui-Mei, Zhao Zhenjiang, Wang Tieya, Yaoyuan Xia, Luo Hao Cai, Tony T.L. Chang, Eiichi Fukatsu, Masao Nakayama, Zhang Wen-pu, Fritz von Klein, Wang Xuex hen, Xue Mo-hong, Zhu Qiwu, Wei Min, Judith Ogden Bullitt, Randle Edwards, Peter Hoffman, Maarten Bos, Luzius Wildhaber, Eugene V. Rostow, Jeremy Thomas, John Churchill, Nessim Shallon, Roberto Ago, and others. File contains newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and handwritten notes about international law in China, including two versions of Macdonald's paper "the People's Republic of China and the International Court of Justice". File includes a letter from Bai Gui-Mei to Mairi Macdonald.
File includes issues of the Journal of the United Nations, United Nations economic and social council reports, United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination reports, handwritten notes, correspondence and other materials related to the subject.
File includes the United Nations general assembly reports on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, five issues of the Journal of the United Nations from the period between 1966 to 1972, United Nations official records on human rights, member lists of the United Nations general assembly, and United Nations reports on the United Nations international conference on human rights.
File includes the United Nations security council proceeding, United Nations economic and social council proceedings, a report of the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination of 1971, and handwritten notes related to the subject. File also contains two drafts of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law final report on the task force on the faculty of law's next 50 years by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law of 1996.
File includes the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination proceedings, United Nations reports on the United Nations international conference on human rights, issues of the Journal of the United Nations, correspondence, the Montreal statement of the assembly for human rights pf March 1968, handwritten notes, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains the paper produced by Dalhousie University Law School with the cooperation of Ronald St. John Macdonald, and two large colour United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women posters.
File includes Max Wershof's statement made in the United Nations sixth committee and the Canadian government's notes pursuant to the secretary-general's note SO 214 (21).
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 R.R. Baxter's address made during the international law weekend of the American branch of the International Law Association, the American Society of International Law, and the Association of the Bar of the city of New York.
File includes the American Society of International Law committee on the selection of the honorary member report, the American Society of International Law 87th annual meeting programs, the American Society of International Law newsletter of January and February 2002, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including William C. Graham, David. C. McDonald, Alona E. Evans, Richard B. Allen, and others. File contains the off-print of the article.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Jean Brain, Maxwell Cohen, Moira Dunbar, F.B. Fingland, John W. Holmes, Terence Armstrong, Neil C. Field, Diamond Jenness, Margaret Lantis, Trevor Lloyd, Michael Marsden, Raleigh Parkin, G.W. Rowley, Gordon W. Smith, Francess F.. Halpenny, R.J Sutherland, and others. File includes the Royal Bank of Canada monthly letter, vol. 46, no. 7, of July 1965, handwritten notes, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including A.W.R. Carrothers, Paul A. Crepeau, J.L. Edwards, J.L. Edwards, Gerald G. FitzGerald, Jacob Ziegel, and others. File includes handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including L.C. Green, Professor Friedmann, J.P. Wolfe, J.G. Castel, J.W. Samuels, Percy E. Corbett, Helen Henderson, and others.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Gary M. Keyes, Peter B. Waite, Christian L. Wiktor, Duncan MacIntosh, Bruce H. Wildsmith, Bruce Archibald, A.S. Abel, Jeremy Akerman, Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, I.F.G. Baxter, J. Alan Beesley, Charles B. Bourne, W.F. Bowker, Alexander B. Campbell, Lorne O. Clarke, F.V. Garcia-Amador, Edvard Hambro, Ivan L. Head, Henry D. Dicks, Marsh Jeanneret, Bora Laskin, Fraser Mooney, Harold Nelson, Martin O'Connell, Diana M. Priestly, Susan Ruether, Dalton Bales, Egon Schwelb, Grant Hammond, A.R. Thomson, K.T. Leffek, C.D. Beeby, James B. Chadwick, J.F. Leddy, R.J. McCleave, J.J Santa-Pinter, Thomas Sloan, Kamleshwar Das, John W. Holmes, Kenneth Jarvis, Paul Martin, Marc Ancel, Richard Arens, Leon A. Bagramov, Antonio Cassese, Jonathan Guss, E.W. Innes, Randall Ivany, Donald W. Mac Donald, Allan J. MacEachen, Hans Mohr, E.W. Whelpton, Arthur S. Pattillo, Leon E. Trakman, Hugh M. Kindred, A. John Yogis, Innis Christie, Alex C. Castles, Patrick J. Cihon, Gordon S. Cowan, R. Desjardins, Yoram Dinstein, Virendra Kumar, Debbie Lynkowski, Donald S. Macdonald, Ronald A. MacDonald, David C. MacDonald, Harrison E. Tucker, Wm. J. Van Veen, Michael Terry Hertz, Donald H. Clark, J.L. Dubinsky, H.W. Arthurs, Nabuya Bamba, Thomas R. Berger, Edmund Morris, Manfred Lachs, Kaldone G. Nweihed, Thomas Maxwell, Otto E. Lang, Allan J. Gotlieb, Ralph Gibson, Gregory T. Evans, Christopher S. Axworthy, Ronald Basford, Gerard Bertrand, R.G.L. Fairweather, Samuel Freedman, Peter E. Darby, Thea E. Smith, Vaughan Black, W.H. Jost, Rudiger Wolfrum, Richard W. Bauman, Joseph G. Jabbra, James Vorenberg, Evelyne Meltzer, Debra Johansen, Howard C. Clark, Jill Shlossberg, W. Brent Cotter, Richard Devlin, A. Donat Pharand, Arthur J. Hanson, Horace Krever, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects during his deanship and professorship at Dalhousie University. File includes a booklet for the proceeding in honour of Mr. Justice Brennan, the Dalhousie Gazette, vol. 116, number 23 of March 1984, Dalhousie News, vol. 29, No. 15 of June 1999, Dalhousie Law School newsletter, vol. 2, no. 8 of February 1976, Dalhousie Faculty Association dialogue, vol. 2, no. 1 of March 1989, Dalhousie Law Journal, vol. 14, no. 2 of November 1991, Dalhousie University Law and Technology Institute newsletter, issue 3 of October 2004, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers bulletin of January and March of 1989, Dalhousie University Stewardship report for 1986, Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies Council, Dalhousie University Faculty of Law Council, Dalhousie University Faculty of Law Executive Committee and Dalhousie University Senate meeting minutes and notices from 1982 to 1990, and a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with unidentified people taken in September of 1987. File may include Ronald St. John Macdonald's personal correspondence. File also contains correspondence from Ronald St. John Macdonald's deanship and professorship period in the University of Toronto Law School from 1971 to 1972, and 1991 to 1992, respectively. File includes materials regarding Dalhousie Law School centenary celebrations.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including H. Peter Stern, Myres S. MacDougal, W.M. Reisman, Anthony T. Kronman, Cheryl A. DeFilippo, and others. File includes newspaper clippings, two mini-cassettes with an interview with Myres S. MacDougal, transcripts of an interview with Myres S. MacDougal, and other materials.
Item consists of correspondence sent between 1990 and 1999 between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Myres S. McDougal, H. Peter Stern, W.M. Reisman, Anthony Kronman, Sheryl DeFilippo, Rosalyn Higgins, and Andrea McDowell.
Item contains a copy of Judge Rosalyn Higgins's memorial of the life of Myres Smith McDougal, delivered at Yale Law School on October 4, 1998. Also includes two memorial news clippings.
Item consists of a draft, annotated transcript of an interview between Kathleen E. Fisher and Myres S. McDougal, conducted on May 11, 1994 in New Haven, Connecticut.
Item consists of the transcript of an interview between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Myres S. McDougal, conducted on August 7, 1995 in New Haven, Connecticut.
Item consists of the transcript of an interview between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Myres S. McDougal, conducted on November 11, 1996, in New Haven, Connecticut. Includes some annotations.
Item consists of a list of questions prepared by Ronald St. John Macdonald on November 8, 1996, in anticipation for his interview with Myres S. McDougal a few days later.
Item consists of a heavily annotated transcript of an interview between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Myres S. McDougal, conducted on November 11, 1996 in New Haven, Connecticut.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including W.H. Charles, Frank P. Grad, H. Allan Leal, E.C. Brierley, Moffatt Hancock, A.E. Anton, H.W. Arthurs, Norman Horrocks, James E. Lockyer, Innis Christie, A. Bissett-Johnson, C. Boyle, and others. File includes pamphlets, handwritten notes, 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 John Willis, Erwin C. Surrency, A.C. Castles, John Tiley, B.F. Boyer, Erwin N. Griswold, Audrey M. Livernois, A.S. Konefsky, Diane C. Maleson, and others. File includes handwritten notes, annotated typescript, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with John Willis, Robert A. Stein, Paul A. Freund, Yves-Marie Morissette. File includes issues vol. 2, no. 2 and 6, of 1992, of Dalhousie Law School News periodical, and newspaper clippings.
