Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his academic activities, including his involvement as a faculty member of York University Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and other institutions. Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's research and publication records, including subject files, book reviews, meeting minutes, clippings, reports, offprints, interview transcripts, periodicals and newsletters.
File contains correspondence, annotated typescripts, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, photographs of Francois Maximilien Bibaud in 1862, and other materials related to the subject. File may include records related to other subjects.
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 photographs of different individuals, including Ronald St. John Macdonald, Eunice W. Beeson, Wang Tieya, John P. Humphrey, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Pope John Paul II, François-Maximilien Bibaud, and many others, taken on different occasions.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's photographs collected throughout his life. Subseries contains photographs of Ronald St. John Macdonald and different individuals, such as Wang Tieya, on different occasions, including at Dalhousie University, conferences, and trips not related to his work.
File includes reports, including the final draft of the Dalhousie University Financial Strategy Committee of the Board of Governors report of 1990, vol. 1, no. 3, of the Dalhousie Alumni Magazine of 1985, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with Dalhousie University as a professor and dean of Dalhousie University Law School. Subseries include records related to Dalhousie Faculty Association's strike in 1988, records related to Dalhousie University Law School centenary, records related to Dalhousie University Law School fire, records related to Ronald St. John Macdonald's lectures, meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, pamphlets, offprints, periodicals, and other materials.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's items of interest collected throughout his life, including biographical materials, art pieces, newspaper clippings, periodicals, books, and other materials.
Files contains loose scrapbook pages from MacDonald family scrapbook with photographs, newspaper clippings, excerpts, and pamphlets. Includes additional explanatory notes by Peter MacDonald.
File includes offprints of Policy controlled state interest analysis in choice of law, measure of damages, tort cases, by Moffatt Hancock; Biblical atonement and modern criminal law, by Jerome Hall, "No distant millennium: the international law of human rights, by John Humphrey, Trials and tribulations of a bluenose barrister, by R.A. Kanigsberg, Constitutionalism and the treaty, by James M. Henry; La capacite internationale des etats: l'exercice du jus tractatuum, by Andre Patry; three typescripts of Dalhousie Law School, 1945-1950; The constitutional framework of the international community and The evolution of international law 1945-1985; a letter dated 3 May 1919 addressed to the secretary of the Civil Service Commission of Canada; Kluwer Law International newsletter, vol. 1(2); a transcript of a conversation between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Elisabeth Mann Borgese dated June 30, 1999; a draft version Niki Tobi's Judge Taslim Olawale Elias; the Canadian Council on International Law membership directory and 34th annual conference programme; and the European Court of Human Rights meeting minutes and reports.
File contains a letter, a copy of the article "the spirit of our criminal law" by Charles Hazlitt Cahan, a report by Paul Mercier of the Special Committee to investigate the administration of the Department of Customs and Excise.
File includes a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with a group of unidentified individuals taken in the 1970s and a portrait of an unidentified man taken in 1988.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the United Nations. Subseries contains reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, press releases, and other materials.
Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his professional activities, including his involvement with different organizations, such as the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, 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. Series contains meeting agendas, meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, and other records.
File includes correspondence with different individuals, annotated typescripts, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, two photographs of John P. Humphrey, and a photograph of John P. Humphrey with Ronald St. John Macdonald in 1991 at McGill University, transcript of interviews between Ronald St. John Macdonald and John P. Humphrey, and other materials related to the subject.
Series comprises correspondence regarding Macdonald's professional and academic involvement with institutions including 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. Series also contains correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald and individuals including Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, Paul E. Martin, Jean Chrétien, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Wang Tieya, A. Donat Pharand, and others.
File includes seven photographs of Wang Tieya submitted by Ronald St. John Macdonald to the Journal of the History of International, Volume 4, Number 1, which included several articles about Judge Wang's influence. File also includes correspondence between Macdonald and Mariska Duindam.
File contains United Nations reports, annotated typescripts, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, course syllabi, press releases, booklets, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains materials related to different Ronald St. John Macdonald's courses at Dalhousie Law School, including jurisprudence, conflicts of law, international law, and other topics. File includes materials related to Ronald St. John Macdonald's real property and land law courses at the University of Western Ontario, and Ronald St. John Macdonald's constitutional law course at Osgoode Hall Law School.
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.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights. Subseries contains periodicals, reports, press releases, photographs, and other materials.
File contains unsorted correspondence with different individuals, including Allan McChesney, I. von Munch, Willis L.M. Reese, Peter O'Hearn, William H. Jarvis, Therese F. Casgrain, M.D. Copithorne, Craig Scott, Ivan L. Head, Myres S. McDougal, William Epstein, Kening Zhang, Claude T. Bissel, Charles B. Bourne, Harry de Brouwer, M.A. Macpherson, Paul Martin, Harold McKay, and others, regarding a wide range of topics. File includes an annual report to the president and board of governors of Dalhousie University by the faculty of law for the period 1979-80, the Dal Alumni News issue of November 1983, Dalhousie Law School periodical "the Ansul" issue of winter 2005, James Smith's paper "the development and jurisdiction of the Nova Scotia Courts, Douglas M. Johnston's resume, a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with an unidentified man in Madrid in September 1976, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law financial statements of 1996, transcript of an interview with G. Morris in November 1995, transcript of an interview with Elizabeth Mann Borgese in April 1996, newspaper clippings, annotated typescripts, and handwritten notes.
File contains different records on various topics, including "the law programme for indigenous blacks and Micmacs: final report to the Law Foundation of Nova Scotia" by A. Wayne MacKay, "Halifax and the Cholera epidemic of 1866" by Ian Cameron, and other materials.
File contains event invites received by Ronald St. John Macdonald's throughout his life. File includes a letter of appointment for the position of consultant with the journal Economy and Law Press.
File contains correspondence, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to the subject. File includes a photograph of an unidentified Dalhousie Law School graduate student with Wang Tieya.
Subseries contains Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding a wide range of subjects, including his visits to China, his research on the teaching of international law at Canadian universities and other topics, the development of various of his books, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Law School Journal, Dalhousie Law School centenary, the Hague, the United Nations, the Canadian Council on International Law, and many other matters. Subseries contains correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald and different individuals, including Paul Martin, Quing-nan Meng, Edgar Gold, Paul Fauteux, Dominique Alheritiere, Tom Hick, R. C. Strother, W.A. MacKay, Wang Fusun, J.D. Kingham, Patti Allen, John Vandermeulen, Rene Jean Dupuy, M.C.W. Pinto, Jacqueline Dauchy, Leo Nevas, Avard Bishop, Charles B. Bourne, John Willis, and many others.
File contains correspondence, annotated typescripts, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, photographs of Francois Maximilien Bibaud in 1862, and other materials related to the subject. File may include records related to other subjects.
Subseries contains Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence with different individuals and organizations, including A. Donat Pharand, J. Alan Beesley, Bozidar Bokatic, Charles B. Bourne, Donald A. Kerr, Donald McInnes, Douglas M. Johnston, Edgar Gold, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Gerald L. Morris, Ivan Leigh Head, John P. Humphrey, John King Gamble Jr., Leslie C. Green, Maxwell Cohen, Wang Tieya, the Canadian Department of External Affairs, the Council of Europe, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects.
Files contains letters from MacDonald to his son, Peter between 1955 and 1963. Includes descriptions of family and social happenings and advice regarding career choices and law school studies.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his consultation work for the Republic of Cyprus. Subseries contains a draft constitution for the Federal Republic of Cyprus, bulletins, newspaper clippings, reports, and other materials.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Akin Emregul, Criton G. Tornaritis, F. Michaelides, M.P. Paidoussis, Stella Souliotim, Andreas Christofides, G.S. Georghallides, Evengelos A. Hadjis, and others, regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald's involvement with the Republic of Cyprus constitution development. File includes correspondence related to the subject that was forwarded to Ronald St. John Macdonald, 13 issues of Cyprus bulletins from the period between1977 and 1980, four issues of the Cyprus Press Digest from May 1975, a copy of the constitutional proposals for Cyprus produced by Lord Radcliffe, newspaper clippings, typescripts, and other materials related to the subject.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his unpublished papers, including a draft of an article developed in conjunction with Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
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.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the Gulf of Maine case. Subseries contains correspondence, a memorandum of agreement, newspaper clippings, reports, and other materials.
