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.
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.
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 Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.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.
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.
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 contains United Nations reports, annotated typescripts, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, course syllabi, press releases, booklets, and other materials related to the subject.
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
Subseries contains handwritten notes, annotated typescripts, correspondence, pamphlets, booklets, a copy of the agreement between Peking University International Law Institute and University Rotterdam GLODIS Institute of the Faculty of Law regarding a research and teaching program, a copy of the Canadian-Chinese programme in international and comparative law between Dalhousie University Faculty of Law and Peking University College of Law, a preliminary proposal for a joint research and education project on international law and human rights between Peking University International Law Institute and the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and other materials.
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 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 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 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".
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 records regarding his involvement with the International Law Association. Subseries contains reports, correspondence, and other materials.
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 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 unpublished papers, including a draft of an article developed in conjunction with Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
