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 different individuals, including Cheng-xu Wang, Tung Shih-chung, Chen Tiqiang, Xiao Yiong-qing, Kui-mei Bai, Shijian Mo, Liu dao-yu, Frank M. Covert, and others.
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 Thea E. Smith about Andre Donat Pharand's work. File includes Ronald St. John Macdonald's handwritten notes on the subject.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Barbara Kwiatkowska, Philip Girard, Haralambros Athanosopulos, C.L.M. Fennes, R. Wolfrum, and others.
File contains correspondence with D.R Adamson, Robert F. Dwyer, Donald R. Seawell, and Randolph L. Simmons, regarding a symposium and golf tournament organized by the Civilian/Military Institute.
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.
File contains correspondence with Pierre Lambert and Louis-Edmond Pettiti, regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald's essay for the book in honour of Louis-Edmond Judge Pettiti. File includes an off-print of Ronald St. John Macdonald's article "the Luxembourg preliminary ruling procedure and its possible application in Strasbourg". File also includes a Ronald St. John Macdonald's manuscript with comments on the universal declaration of human rights.
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 Rene-Jean Dupuy, P.J.G. Kapteyn, Manfred Lachs, and others, regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald's lecture at the Hague Academy of International Law.
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 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 different individuals, including Harlan Cleveland, Kendall Kidder, Jens Evensen, S. Gustafsson Yoshito Kita, Bruce Childs, and others. File includes manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes regarding the subject.
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.
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 different individuals, including Robert W. Reford, Murray R. Maynard, Dagmar Wichmar, J. Alex Langford, Roland Michener, and others. File includes Canadian Institute for International Affairs meeting notices, agendas and minutes from the period between 1971 and 1979.
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 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 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 correspondence with Peter C. Dobell, Eric W. Innes, and George C. van Roggen. File Includes two issues of the proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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 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.
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 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 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 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".
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 with John P. Humpfrey, J.L. Granatstein, Allan E. Blakeney, A. Meghji, and Mary Eberts. File includes a typescript related to the subject.