Fonds comprises records documenting Henry Hicks' political career and tenure as president of Dalhousie University, as well as his earlier studies at Oxford University and his military service in World War II. There are also records regarding his stamp collecting hobby, his community service, and his long involvement with associations such as the Rhodes Scholarship Committee. Record types include diaries and appointment books, correspondence, manuscripts, philatelic records, newspaper clippings and photographs.
Item consists of a facsimile of the original December 18, 1872 court document regarding the mystery of the Mary Celeste, undertaken at the Vice Admiralty Court of Gibraltar, before Sir James Cochrane Knight, Judge and Commissary, and collected in the 1970s by Irving Deale.
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 the report presented by Ganshof van der Meersch on the occasion of the visit by the European Court of Human Rights to the Court of the Justice of the European communities.
File includes a copy of the convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms of the commonwealth of independent states, the European Court of Human Rights press file no. 13 of September 1996, the European Court of Human Rights press file no. 14 of November 1996, and the European Court of Human Rights report on the draft protocol no. 12 on securing certain additional rights to persons deprived of their liberty.
File includes Phil Richards' art portfolio, European Court of Human Rights reports and meeting minutes, and typescripts regarding the United Nations' charter and international law.
File includes reports on human rights, a copy of the Vienna Declaration, the Council of Europe "Europe: the road to democracy - the Council of Europe and the 'architecture' of Europe" report, 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 includes reports, meeting minutes, meeting timetables, handwritten notes, press releases, and other materials related to the subject. File includes Ronald St. John Macdonald's nine short comments on the universal declaration of human rights, records related to the European convention on human rights, and a meeting minute of the London Institute of World Affairs council of June 1983.
File includes an issue of the International Institute for Democracy clearing house review, Democracy: newsletter of the Strasbourg conference on parliamentary democracy, CEJIL gazette, European Union newsletter, and Council of Europe press releases.
File includes meeting minutes, reports, newsletters, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law's certificate of incorporation, and other materials related to the subject.
File includes correspondence, provisional agenda for the African Society of International Law's first annual conference, a draft of the African Society of International Law's statute, the African Society of International Law's member list, and a copy of the African Society of International Law's certificate of incorporation.
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 the report submitted by the right honourable Lord Radcliffe to the secretary of state for the colonies to parliament by command of Her Majesty.
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 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 Andrea McDowell and Avard L. Bishop. File includes various off-print and copies of articles sent to Ronald St. John Macdonald, including "Theodore Dwight Woosley: his political and social ideas" by George A. King, "protection of human rights in federal and other democratic systems of government: an investigation of historic models and their impact on practical solutions: by Karl Josef Partsch, "teaching, research, and the dissemination of international law in China: the contribution of Wang Tieya" by Zhaojie Li, and others. File includes the Canadian Association of Law Libraries special issue of 1988.
