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 Michael MccGwire, Shabtai Rosenne, Arvid Pardo, and Renate Platzoder. File includes a letter from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to Fred Crickard.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including E.C. Harris, Leon E. Trakman, Christine Boyle, John Gratwick, and others. File includes handwritten notes and annotated typescripts on the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Ronald Thomas Donald, G.R. George, Kenneth Strand, G.H. Crouse, Mitchell Sharp, Allan Leal, and others.
File contains records regarding different courses, including Canadian foreign policy, public international law, international and European law, and others. File includes records regarding curriculum changes.
File contains records regarding Paul A. Freund's visit to the University of Toronto for a special lecture on Pentagon papers secrecy and freedom of expression.
File includes meeting minutes of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Council from April and May 1990, a University of Toronto Special Committee on Bursary Allocations report from May 1990, and a Dalhousie Law School memorandum about the graduate seminar of autumn 1986.
File contains reports, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, correspondence, the issue no. 21 of the University of Toronto Staff Bulletin of February 1969, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence forwarded to Ronald St. John Macdonald that is related to the subject. File contains a letter from Donald S. Frey to Ronald St. John Macdonald, Includes proposals for the creation of an independent Canadian organization for Human Rights, and other records related to the subject.
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.
Files contain correspondence with the Department of External Affairs of Canada, a memorandum of agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald and the Department of External Affairs of Canada, and other materials related to the subject.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Files contains correspondence regarding a proposed memorial piece about Vincent C. MacDonald for the Dalhousie Alumni newsletter "Hearsay" for Law Graduates and drafts for submission.
File contains records regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald's appointment as Officer and Companion of the Order of Canada, including a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald during the investiture ceremony in October 1984. File includes records regarding a commemorative medal awarded to Ronald St. John Macdonald in 1977, and a resolution by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly to congratulate R. St. J. Macdonald on becoming Companion of the Order of Canada, and other materials related to the Order of Canada.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including William C. Graham, David. C. McDonald, Alona E. Evans, Richard B. Allen, and others. File contains the off-print of the article.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Charles B. Bourne, J.G. Castel, W.H. Charles, Maxwell Cohen, R.D. Gibson, and others. File includes the manuscript of the article.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Jean Brain, Maxwell Cohen, Moira Dunbar, F.B. Fingland, John W. Holmes, Terence Armstrong, Neil C. Field, Diamond Jenness, Margaret Lantis, Trevor Lloyd, Michael Marsden, Raleigh Parkin, G.W. Rowley, Gordon W. Smith, Francess F.. Halpenny, R.J Sutherland, and others. File includes the Royal Bank of Canada monthly letter, vol. 46, no. 7, of July 1965, handwritten notes, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with Thea W. Smith, Nikki Tobi, Emile K.M. Yakpo, Alan Stephen, Emanuel G. Bello. File includes other materials related to the subject.
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.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Angel W. Peluffo, Mario Rodriguez, Richard I. Philips, Manuel E. Egana, Tad Szulc, Mario Garcia Inchaustegui, John M. Fischer, Covey Oliver, Harvey L. Johnson, K.D. Edmonds, and others. File contains handwritten notes and pamphlets related to the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including A. Currall, Mahmoud El-Okdah, M. Kisaka, W.H. McConnell, Nancy Cone, Harriet Hornstein, Linda Freidman, Nicholas Volk Jr., George Doxey, Richard W. Judy, and others. File includes handwritten notes, typescripts, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to the research in which Ronald St. John Macdonald tried to publish but wasn't successful and later became a seminar.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including L.C. Green, Professor Friedmann, J.P. Wolfe, J.G. Castel, J.W. Samuels, Percy E. Corbett, Helen Henderson, and others.
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.
