Fonds consists of published material, correspondence, pamphlets, off-prints on foreign language broadcasting around the world; correspondence and literature on the League of Nations Society in Canada; and correspondence with the Canadian Prisoners’ Welfare Association, the Penal Association of Canada and the Prisoners’ Aid and Welfare Association.

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.

Fonds consists of Janet M. Eaton's materials regarding her professional involvement with the Canadian Association for Adult Education and the Continuous Learning Association of Nova Scotia. Fonds includes meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, conference programmes, and other textual records.

File contains handwritten notes, an annotated draft of Ronald St. John Macdonald's paper "the United Nations decade of international law", annotated typescripts, and other materials.

File contains two copies of a pamphlet advertising the French organist, Marcel Dupre, for his 1922-1923 concert season.

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 Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.

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.

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.

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.

Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's research and publication records, including subject files, book reviews, meeting minutes, clippings, reports, offprints, interview transcripts, periodicals and newsletters.

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

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 Leslie C. Green, Charles M. Dalfen, Alice Desjardins, Ross T. Clarkson, Donat Pharand, K.R. Simmonds, William C. Graham, R.W. MacDowell, A.W. Robertson, M. Debicki, Rene-Jean Dupuy, Gilles Lalande, P.F. Little, John H. Currie, Arch MacKenzie, A.E. Gotlieb, Ivan L. Head, Kenneth Jarvis, Maxwell Cohen, Jorge Castaneda, N.A.M MacKenzie, Paul Mahoney, M.L. Jewett, Stanislas Slosar, Donald J. Fleming, and others. File includes Canadian Council on International Law reports, research proposals, meeting agendas and minutes, bulletins, and other materials. File contains correspondence about John Thomas Peters Humphrey's will and a photocopy of the will.

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including W.H. Charles, Frank P. Grad, H. Allan Leal, E.C. Brierley, Moffatt Hancock, A.E. Anton, H.W. Arthurs, Norman Horrocks, James E. Lockyer, Innis Christie, A. Bissett-Johnson, C. Boyle, and others. File includes pamphlets, handwritten notes, and other materials related to the subject.

File contains unsorted correspondence with different individuals, including Franklin Berman, Hebert Petzold, Wilbur F. Bowker, Jianming Shen, Timothy T. Daley, Charlotte Ku, Ian M. MacKeigan, Ivan L. Head, John E. Read, John K. Akpalu, Emile K.M. Yakpo, Bozidar Bakotic, Donald S. MacDonald, W. Andrew MacKay, Eileen Janzen, B.A. Pollard, W.A. Charles, Ganshof van der Meersch, J. King Gordon, Kurt Herndl, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Horace E. Read, C. Trevor Anderson, Thomas R. Berger, Dawn Russel, Arnold W. Zeman, C. Rhodes Smith, Susan Mann, Wang Tieya, Niki Tobi, Sienho Yee, A. Kolodkin, Frank Milligan, M.L. Friedland, Brian Dickson, George C. van Roggen, D.H.N. Johnson, Lun S. Wong, Allan J. MacEachen, J. Zourek, Pierre Charpentier, John E.C. Brierley, Henry D. Hicks, Sandra Liebel, Marcel Cadieux, Alfred E. von Overbeck, Philip Girard, T.H.B. Symons, Edward McWhinney, Philip C. Jessup, Edward.G. Lee, E.E. Appiah, M. Jean Houston, David L. Johnston, John J. Quinn, Charles B. Bourne, L. Ferrari Bravo, John M. Davison, Edgar Gold, James C. Gervais, Ko Swan Sik, D.P. Verma, G.A. Klassen, Kathleen Fisher, Peter Malanczuk, Michael D. Harris, Alexander Marschik, Manfred Lachs, Thea E. Smith, J.S. Castel, Paul E. Martin, R.M. Warren, Hideo Takabayshi, and others, regarding a wide range of topics. File includes a transcript of an interview with Innis Christie in 1988, the Halifax Club pamphlet, a United Nations Economic and Social Council report of 1991, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law director's report for 1989, the Africa Society of International and Comparative Law supplement to the application for funding submitted to the Canadian International Development Agency of June 1988, the Africa Society of International and Comparative Law annual report of 1989, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law newsletter vol. 1, no. 2, of May 1977, and vol. 5, no.1, of January 1981, Osgoode Hall Law School Continuum periodical, vol. 2, no. 1, of 1974, the American Society of International Law newsletter vol. 21, issue 4, of August/ October 2005, the World Academy of Art and Science newsletter of winter/spring 1999, the International Ocean Institute Across the Oceans newsletter, vol. 1, issue 1, of January 1982, Cyprus Bulletin, vol. 34, no. 23 and 24, of November 1996, University of Toronto Nexus periodical of February 1991, Dalhousie University Hearsay of January 1976, Amnesty International bulletin, vol. 1, no. 1, of January 1974, McGill University Quid Novi periodical, vol. 4, no. 9, of November 1983, Dalhousie Faculty Association Dialogue, vol. 3, no. 8, of March 1990, Dalhousie Law School programme for indigenous, blacks, and Mi'kmaqs of January 1994, Dalhousie University Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Faculty of Law special meeting minute of January 1973, Council of Europe 67th plenary administrative session meeting minute of March 1989, Lester B. Pearson College Board of Trustees meeting minute of February 1979, Council of Europe report on the functioning of the organs of the European Convention on Human Rights of 1984, the editor's agreement between Koninklijke Brill NV., Douglas M. Johnson, and Ronald St. John Macdonald regarding the book "towards world constitutionalism: issues in the legal ordering of the world community" of 2003, photograph of John E.C.B. in front of Killam Memorial Library in 1985, a photograph of John Peters Humphrey possibly in 1995, two photographs of Ronald St. John Macdonald with a group of unidentified individuals in Calgary in 1974, a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with Bozidar Bakotic and an unidentified man possibly in the late 1970s, a photograph of Charles B. Bourne in 1995, three photographs of Dalhousie University Law School Students of 1982-1983, a drawing of an unidentified man - possibly a judge, a transcript of an interview with Myres S. McDougal in 1994, a transcript of an interview with Charles B. Bourne in 1992, annotated typescripts, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and other materials. File includes a letter from Bozidar Bakotic to Ronald St. John Macdonald reporting that censorship forbade him to contribute to the development of one of Ronald St. John Macdonald's book.

Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the United Nations. Subseries contains reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, press releases, and other materials.