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 research notes, a copy of the UNESCO report "People's Republic of China: Strengthening Training and Research in Selected Key Universities" and clippings.
File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Zhao Zhenjiang, Wang Tieya, Charles B. Bourne, Homer G. Angelo, Jean Hostert, Cheng Shou-yi, Wong Chi-Wie, Chao Jin, Peter Hoffman, An Chen, Lewis Perinbam, Luo Hao-cai, Laura Hill, Jean J.A. Salmon, Cheng Peng, John Churchill, Zhang Guo-hua, Fred Kan, Edward Epstein, Wei Min, Dawn Tom, Tung Shin-chung, Philip Girard, Henry R. Zheng, Ren Jianxin, Maria Cioni, Audrey Davis, James Li and others. File includes the press release no. 31 of 1977 of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations, the first draft of Ronald St. John Macdonald and Bai Gui-mei's paper "legal education in China today". File includes typescripts, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to the subject. File may contain correspondence regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald's books "essays in honour of Want Tieya".
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 a copy of the report "A Canadian-Chinese Prorgamme in International & Comparative Law" drafted by the College of Law at Peking University and the Faculty of Law at Dalhousie University. File also contains correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Paul Brennan, Marc Dolgin, Peter Hoffman, W. Andrew Mackay, H.L. O'Brien, Alasdair Sinclair, and Wang Tieya.
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 records regarding awards and honours he received during his career as a jurist, judge, and professor, including his appointment for the Order of Canada. Subseries contains correspondence, photographs, certificates, periodicals, and other materials.
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.
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.
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.
