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 with L.A. Sicilianos regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald's essay for the book in honour of Nicolas Valticos. File includes an off-print of Ronald St. John Macdonald's article "supervision of the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights".
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 correspondence with Charles Bourne and Jean Hetu. File includes meeting minutes of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law and an excerpt of the book "the international law and policy of human welfare" by Ronald St. John Macdonald.
File contains correspondence with different individuals and institutions, including University of Toronto Press, J. Alan Beesley, Emilio S. Binavince, Charles B. Bourne, Ian Brownlie, A.A. Fatouros, Leslie C. Green, M. Jean Houston, Nancy Iacobucci, D.V. Kerig, Margaret A. Banks, Andre Defour, Wolfgang Freidman, Allan E. Gotlieb, D. Colyn Williams, Carol M. Creighton, Jean Beetz, W.F. Bowker, N.F.W. Gates, F.E. LaBrie, D.T. Anderson, John Claydon, Vincent Bladen, Robin S. Harris, G.L. Morris, Ivan A. Vlasic, and others. File includes contributors list, contributors' biographical notes, book reviews, and other materials related to the subject,
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including John Clayton, Allan E. Gotlieb, D.A. Hill, Nathan Keyfitz, Gerald L. Morris, J. Allan Beesley, Robert W. Cox, Gerry K. Helleiner, Louis Sabourin, Peter Dijkstra, John Hucker, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Inga Angevaare, Lietha Stokhuyzen, R.G. Blackburn, Ian Brownlie, Marc Ancel, Mohammad K. Nawaz, Charles B. Bourne, Petersen N. Decker, and others. File includes a copy of the agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Sijthoff International Publishing Company B.V., handwritten notes, typescripts, pamphlets, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence between Ronald St John Macdonald, D.K Ghosh and Jean J.A. Salmon. File includes handwritten notes and typescripts related to the law department at Jilin University.
File contains handwritten and typed correspondence between Ronald St John Macdonald and Wang Tieya, between 1991 and 1994, around preparation for a series of interviews between the two, around the publication of a festschrift in honour of Professor Wang's career, and a conference at the Institute of International Law.
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 records regarding events such as the conference on the Canadian and the United States strategic concerns in the Arctic held at the University of California in 1990. Subseries include pamphlets and typescripts.
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 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 the draft version of chapters 4, 8 and endnotes of Ronald St. John Macdonald's unidentified paper regarding Dalhousie University Law School history.
File contains annotated drafts of chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. File includes the issue zero of the Journal of the International Law Association of July 1998.
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.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the American Society of International Law. Subseries contains newsletters, reports, programmes, and other materials.
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 the issue vol. 15, part 4, of October 1966, which includes Egon Schwelb's article "the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination".
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 correspondence with Michael MccGwire, Shabtai Rosenne, Arvid Pardo, and Renate Platzoder. File includes a letter from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to Fred Crickard.
File includes newspaper clippings about Ronald St. John Macdonald's work and his writings, including the articles "security council memberships", "fishing zones", "Canada-US disputes needs new solutions", "important step forward at Western", and "individual rights overlooked in quest to protect groups". File includes two issues of the University of Toronto Versity News periodical of 1967, an issue of the University of Toronto Staff Bulletin of 1968, and the issue vol. 77, no. 3, of October 1997, of the McGill News periodical which contains an article mentioning Mairi St. John Macdonald, and other materials. File contains a letter from Ronald St. John Macdonald to Craig Scott related to lunch arrangements.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the Canadian Council on International Law. Subseries contains conference lists, conference proceedings, bulletins, correspondence, meeting minutes, administrative records, and other materials.
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.
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.
File contains correspondence with Richard A. Falk, H.W. Arthurs, J. George Neuspiel, Herbert Marx, James Leavy, Ronald N. Tucker, W. R. Lederman, J.R. Michaud, Alan Grant, Paul A. Crepeau, and others, as well as Macdonald's notes.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including L.A. Allen, H. David Archibald, R.P. Armstrong, H.W. Arthurs, Ranjit S. Hall, J.J MacDonald, A.J McComber, and others, regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald's appointment as Dean of the University of Toronto Law School.
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 Judith Fingard, William A.W. Neilson, Margaret A. Banks, Constance Backhouse, and Patricia Hughes. File contains annotated typescripts and handwritten notes related to the subject.