Archives Catalogue

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s speeches and lectures

Subseries
1965 - 1997

Subseries comprises talks given by Ronald St. John Macdonald and includes transcripts, handwritten notes and annotated typescripts.

The Development of Public International Law in the 20th Century research materials

MS-2-615, Box 72, Folder 11
File
1997 - 1997

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials on the teaching of international law at Dalhousie University in the 1930s

MS-2-615, Box 91, Folder 9
File
1991 - 1997

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the development of his project "the development of public international law in the 20th century"

MS-2-615, Box 17, Folder 8; and MS-2-615, Box 21, Folder 14
File
1992 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Kemi Odujirin, Sergei Vinogradov, Igor Lukashuk, Krzysztoof Jan Skubiszewski, Karl Josef Partsch, Grainne de Burca, Vladimir Semenov, and others. File includes handwritten notes and typescripts.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the International Law Gazette and the World Network for International Law

MS-2-615, Box 21, Folder 2
File
1991 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Robert Jennings, Maurice Glele, Rudolf Bernhardt, Andronico O. Adede, Francisco Orrego Vicuna, C.F. Amerasinghe, Christiane Bourloyannis, A.H.A. Soons, Jean-Claude Aime, Erik Jayme, and others. File includes the resolution of the Council of Delegates of November 1991 and other materials related to the subject.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the United Nations Trust Fund

MS-2-615, Box 27, Folder 3
File
1996 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Lucius Caflisch, Mohammed Munavaar, A. Rohan Pereira, Emile K.M. Yakpo, and others. File includes newspaper clippings and other materials related to the subject.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the United Nations

MS-2-615, Box 26, Folder 11
File
1972 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including M. Teresa, M.C.W. Pinto, Jacqueline Dauchy, Leo Nevas, Avard Bishop, and others. File includes two issues of the Disarmament Times periodical of September and October 1990 and the issue vol. 9, no. 3, November 1989 of Science for Peace Bulletin.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials on the teaching of law and human rights in China

MS-2-615, Box 91, Folders 10 and 11
File
[ca. 1978] - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding his visits to China

MS-2-615, Box 1, Folders 5 - 10; MS-2-615, Box 2, Folder 11; and MS-2-615, Box 10, Folder 11
File
1972 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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.

Newspaper clippings about politics in China

MS-2-615, Box 68, Folder 9
File
1985 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's notes about teaching international law at Dalhousie University

MS-2-615, Box 93, Folders 3 - 5
File
1972 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Portrait of Ronald St. John Macdonald

MS-2-615, Box 134, Folder 2
File
1996 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Proceedings of the United Nations general assembly

MS-2-615, Box 110, Folders 1 - 9; and MS-2-615, Box 111, Folders 1 and 2
File
1964 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the Independent World Commission on the Oceans

MS-2-615, Box 22, Folder 5
File
1995 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with Mario Soares, former president of Portugal, and Mario Baptista Coelho. File includes typescripts related to the subject.

Reviews of Ronald St. John Macdonald's published work

MS-2-615, Box 30, Folder 18; and MS-2-615, Box 65, Folders 16 - 21
File
1974 - 1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File includes reviews of Canadian perspectives on international law and organization; F.R. Scott: essays on his contributions to law, literature, and politics; and Structure and process of international law: essays in legal philosophy doctrine and theory. File also contains Macdonald's review of Constitutionalism and rights: the influence of the United States constitution abroad, by Louis Henkin and Albert J. Rosenthal; and Justice in international law (selected writings of Judge Stephen M. Schwebel), by Stephen M. Schwebel; clippings and correspondence.

Leadership in law : John P. Humphrey and the development of international law of human rights : [research materials]

MS-2-615, Box 76, Folders 1 - 7
File
1936 - 1995, predominant 1980 - 1995

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

The teaching of international law at Dalhousie, 1883 - 2000 : [research materials]

MS-2-615, Box 75, Folders 4 and 5; and MS-2-615, Box 79, Folder 1
File
1950 - 1995

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Institute of International Law

MS-2-615, Box 127, Folder 11
File
[ca. 1995] - [ca. 1995]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the development of the book "the European system for the protection of human rights"

MS-2-615, Box 18, Folder 9 - 13; MS-2-615, Box 19, Folders 1 and 2; and MS-2-615, Box 20, Folders 1 and 2
File
1986 - 1994

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Herbert Petzold, Franz Matscher, Prince Nicolas de Liechtenstein, Alois Mock, Lindy Melman, Alan Stephens, Goran Melander, Pieter van Dijk, Andrew Clapham, Karl J. Partsch, Jean-Paul Jacque, Mark Eugene Villiger, Paul Mahoney, Anthony Lester, Hans Danelius, Goran Melander, Andrew Drzemczewski, Peter Leuprecht, Jan de Meyer, Soren Prebenson, Malcolm Shaw, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, M. Melchior, and others. File includes a list of contributors, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to the subject. File also contains the editor's agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Kluwer Academic Publishing B.V. regarding the book "essays in honour of Wang Tieya".

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the United Nations Decade of International Law

MS-2-615, Box 27, Folders 1, 2 and 10
File
1990 - 1993

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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".

The American Society of International Law interest group on the U.N. decade of international law newsletter

MS-2-615, Box 122, Folder 19
File
1993 - 1993

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the World Network for International Law

MS-2-615, Box 28, Folder 16
File
1991 - 1992

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Igor I. Lukashuk, Eiichi Fukatsu, M. Munavvar, Juergen Dedring, Ibrahim F.I. Shihata, and others.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s conference records

Subseries
1972 - 1992

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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.

Draft text for comment for a conference on Canadian and the United States Strategic Concerns in the Arctic

MS-2-615, Box 59, Folder 12
File
1992

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains a draft text for comment of October 1992 for the conference held at the University of California on March 23-24 1990.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research notes about Maxwell Cohen

MS-2-615, Box 96, Folder 7
File
1959 - 1991

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

United Nations' decade of international law

MS-2-615, Box 115, Folders 7 and 8
File
1990 - 1991

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Pamphlet for an event held at Dalhousie University to celebrate the publication of Claude Bissel's Ernest Buckler Remembered

MS-2-615, Box 127, Folder 15
File
1989 - 1991

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

International Law Association

Subseries
1970 - 1990

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the International Law Association. Subseries contains reports, correspondence, and other materials.

Research records regarding the protection of journalists in international law

MS-2-615, Box 73, Folder 8
File
[ca. 1990]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

International graduate education and international development : the role of Canadian universities : [speech]

UA-3, Box 306, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
January 9, 1990

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a draft of an address delivered by Barry Lesser at the ANnual General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Graduate Schools, in Winnipeg, November 3, 1989, that was collected by Howard Clark. Also includes a note of appreciation from Clark to Lesser, dated January 9, 1990.

International Law Association reports

MS-2-615, Box 125, Folders 6 and 7; and MS-2-615, Box 128, Folder 4
File
1977 - 1990

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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.

Asian Perspective on the Theory of International Law research notes

MS-2-615, Box 73, Folder 6
File
[ca. 1988] - [ca. 1990]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Common action : a global response to the challenge of Perestroika / Ronald St. John Macdonald and Elisabeth Mann Borgese : [manuscript]

MS-2-615, Box 107, Folder 15
File
1989 - 1989

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains the sixth draft of the article.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials regarding the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights

MS-2-615, Box 122, Folder 12
File
1945 - [198-?]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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.

African Society of International Law

Subseries
1985 - 1989

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the African Society of International Law.

Public international law: a proposal submitted to the Ford Foundation / University of Toronto Faculty of Law

MS-2-615, Box 67, Folder 12
File
[198-?] - [198-?]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding the development of his book "Canadian perspective on international law and organization"

MS-2-615, Box 66, Folders 11 - 13; and MS-2-615, Box 74, Folders 1 - 5
File
1966 - 1989

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File includes records that Ronald St. John Macdonald collected after the book was published.

Unpublished manuscripts by Ronald St. John Macdonald

Subseries
1956 - 1989

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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.

H.E. Ambassador Alexander Borg Olivier's statement made in the United Nations general assembly forty-fourth session

MS-2-615, Box 109, Folder 4
File
1989 - 1989

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

International Law Association Committee on Legal Aspects of the Conservation of the Environment

MS-2-615, Box 127, Folders 2 and 3
File
1972 - 1988

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's handwritten notes and papers regarding international law

MS-2-615, Box 108, Folder 7
File
1961 - 1988

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

International law studies at Universite de Montreal history

MS-2-615, Box 92, Folder 7 and 8
File
1970 - 1987

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Research materials on the teaching of international law at Canadian universities

MS-2-615, Box 92, Folders 5 and 6; MS-2-615, Box 93, Folders 1 and 2
File
1973 - 1987

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Rethinking International Governance group preliminary report

MS-2-615, Box 67, Folder 15
File
1986 - 1986

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains the preliminary report produced at the first meeting of the group assembled by the Harold E. Stassen Center for World Peace of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Empress

MS-2-615, Box 135, Folder 14
File
1986 - 1986

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File consists of the issue in which contains an article about Ronald St. John Macdonald and the European Court of Human Rights.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the International Law Association

MS-2-615, Box 22, Folders 9 - 11
File
1973 - 1986

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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.

The Convention on all forms of discrimination against women: a dream or reality? / Richard Haigh, Richard Pratt and Ronald St. John Macdonald

MS-2-615, Box 116, Folder 8
File
1986 - 1986

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials on Université Laval history and the teaching of international law at the university