File is an audio reel containing an interview with Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research in New Delhi and vice president of the All-India Women's Association. Kumari, in Halifax for a month-long summer programme called Gender and Development, spoke with CKDU's Steve Balyi on new legislation in India to protect women from wife battering. Kumari also spoke about her book, "Brides are for Burning: Dowry Victims in India." The interview aired June 7, 1988 and was rebroadcast June 10, 1988 on Title Waves, a CKDU radio program.

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.

Subseries contains Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence with different individuals, including John Holmes, Paul Martin, Maxwell Cohen, Roland Michener, D.W. Fulford, Donald S. Macdonald, Charles B. Bourne. Christine Boyle, Donald E. Buckingham, David R. Chipman, Innis Christie, H.C. Charles, George F. Curtis, Audrey Davis, L.C. Green, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects.

Subseries contains Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence with different individuals and organizations, including A. Donat Pharand, J. Alan Beesley, Bozidar Bokatic, Charles B. Bourne, Donald A. Kerr, Donald McInnes, Douglas M. Johnston, Edgar Gold, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Gerald L. Morris, Ivan Leigh Head, John P. Humphrey, John King Gamble Jr., Leslie C. Green, Maxwell Cohen, Wang Tieya, the Canadian Department of External Affairs, the Council of Europe, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects.

File contains correspondence with different individuals including W. Donald Goodfellow, Jutta Brunne, D.P. Verma, Florentino P. Feliciano, Krzysztof Skubiszewski, K. Wang, Barbara J. St. Bernard, T.O. Elias, Shigemi Watanabe, Daniel Ish, Charles B. Bourne, Piero Ziccardi, Charles A. Lussier, K. Subrahmaniam, Peter J. Spiro, Peter J. O'hearn, Allan J. MacEachen, Geral A. Regan, W.A. MacKay, John Willis, Howard C. Clark, Lyman R. Robinson, Bertha Wilson, Donald McInnes, Roland Michener, James A. Coutts, Mark MacGuigan, Alan D. Stephens, Donat Pharand, R.J. Marin, L.H. Legault, Dimitri S. Constatopoulos, T.R. Berger, Constance Glube, Bora Laskin, Jim MacPherson, Innis Christie, James B. Fanning, Patti Allen, George F. McCurdy, Ton J.M. Zuijdwijki, Russell N. Fairbanks, Ian G. McLeod, Shamsul Morshed, Madeleine Wehberg, G.A.H. Pearson, Erik Suy, Eiichi Fukatsu, Julie Loranger, Jean Denis Gagnon, Alan Gotlieb, David Makonnen, Brian Flemming, Erwin N. Griswold, Myres S. MacDougal, Y.L. Chan, Armand de Mestral, Allan C. Dunlop, Berry Mawhinney, Rosalyn Higgins, James H. Lenihan, Laura Villarreal Bueno, Carl-Goran Heden, Bin Cheng, Antonio Cassese, Thomas R. Berger, B.G. Ramcharan, Ilsabeth Mann Borgese, Hu Shikai, James Grey, F.J.C. Newbould, James Vorenberg, A.W. Bradley, Etty George, Christopher S. Axworthy, Renate Platzoder, T.A. Cromwell, Michael I. Jeffery, Pamela Thomnson, Douglas M. Johnson, John McNait, J. King Gordon, Richard B. Lillich, Virginia A. Scott, Bing Ho, Ni Mengxiong, Samuel Freedman, Jean-Louis Magdelenat, Richard Falk, H.W. Arthurs, Stephen Clarkson, Max Habicht, Gerald-A. Beaudoin, Thea Smith, Nicolas Jackson, Carolyn H. Filteau, William C. Gilmore, Nicole Leplante, Oscar Schachter, R. Riedel, Li Yuguo, Dale Gibson, Geral A. Klassen, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects. File includes the issue vol. 4, no. 21, of November 1853, of the British Noth Ameican periodical, the issue no. 100, of June 1984, of the Canadian Department of External Affairs press-release, a Dalhousie University Faculty of Law Executive Committee meeting minutes of September 1989, the issue vol. 11, no. 23, of March 1988, of the Dalhousie Law Journal, a photograph of Renate Platzoder, Meng Quin-nan's resume, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes.

File includes Venkateswara S. Mani's paper "patent illegality of the second Bush war".

File contains unsorted correspondence with different individuals, including Krystyna Kowalik-Banczyk, R.P. Anand, Dieter Tietz, Jeremy Thomas, Hugo Caminos, Peter H. Rohn, H.D. Hicks, W.A. MacKay, Matthew Garfield, Martin Cohn, Andrew J. Peter, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Richard N. Gardner, Paul E. Martin, Stephen Hanson, Gerald A. Beaudoin, H. Wade MacLauchlan, J.D. Arnup, H. David Archibald, Ian G. Baxter, M.I. Bateman, G.V.V. Nicholls, Colonel Wendell Blanchard, J.F. Edmonds, Ivan L. Head, J.S. Nutt, M.B. Dymond, Eiichi Fukatsu, L. Brothers, John R. Cartwright, Diana Maughan, Amber Pashuk, Alexandre Kiss, Reem A. Bahdi, Wolgang Strasser, Tauno Bergholm, A. Ch. Kiss, Eileen Janzen, Suzanne Lalonde, Marianne Scott, Manuel Rama-Montaldo, Donat Pharand, Walter Truett Anderson, Barry L. Mawhinney, Hans Corell, and others, regarding a wide range of topics. File includes the American Society of International Law newsletter of March and May 1994, the American Society of International Law newsletter vol. 21, issue 3, of May and July 2005, the Society of Legal Scholars newsletter of winter 2003, the Canadian Council on International Law bulletin vol. 27, no. 2, of spring 2001, the Canadian Council on International Law bulletin vol .31, no. 1 and 2, of spring and summer 2005, a United Nations General Assembly reports of 1965 and 1970, a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with an unidentified man in 2001, a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald receiving his Doctor of Laws degree at McGill University in 1988, a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with B.L. Laskin and J.B. Milner in 1965, annotated typescripts, handwritten notes, and newspaper clippings.

File contains unsorted correspondence with different individuals, including Lyman R. Robinson, Bruce P. Archibald, K.V. Raman, Mark A. Roy, Manfred Lachs, Blair Seaborn, G.V. La Forest, Leon E. Trakman, Jules Deschenes, H. Scott Fairley, Luzius Wildhaber, Horace Krever, Margaret H. Ogilvie, A. Watts, Dawn A. Russell, D.H.N. Johnson, John King Gamble, Choon-ho Park, Lorenne M.G. Clark, John Willis, Gerald-A. Beaudoin, Bin Cheng, Finlay MacDonald, Roma Andrusiak, Irving Abella, Anne Bayefsky, Gerald K. Helleiner, Brian Mulroney, May Lui, Robert D. Watt, Joseph W. Samuels, Douglas Lambert, Eugene Forsey, R.J. Moores, B.S. Chimni, Jimmy Carter, Taslim O. Elias, Joseph Caron, Volodymyr Butkevych, Judith A. LaRocque, Bertha Wilson, Stewart McInnes, William R. Slomanson, Hector Gros Espiell, Rudolph Bernhardt, Timothy Wilson, Murray Fraser, Wang Tieya, Richard L. Evans, Julien S. Mackay, R.K. Dixit, Marie-Helene Boyle, Frank Iacobucci, Nicholas d'Ombrain, Hans Corell, Henry J. Bourguignon, Charles B. Bourne, Luo Haocai, Irene Courage, Frau Ulrike Dorr, Peter Weiss, K. Venkatta Raman, Detlev F. Vagts, Vladimir Semenov, Charlotte Ku, Donat Pharand, Keith B. Jobson, Gabriel Warren, W.Z. Estey, and others, regarding a wide range of topics. File includes the University of Victoria Faculty of Law newsletter vol. 3, 4, and 5 of February 1983, April 1984, and May 1985, the Canadian Council on International Law meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Senate meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Executive Committee meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Faculty Council meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Joint Committee on Faculty Salary Data Base report of March 1990, DFA Dialogue vol. III, no. 10, of April 1990, the Canadian Council on International Law bulletin vol. 11, no. 1, of September 1984, the African Society of International and Comparative Law newsletter no. 7 of June 1992, the American Society of International Law newsletter of January and February 2003, Foundation for International Human Rights by-laws, World Academy of Art and Science by-laws of February 1988, two photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald - in which in one of them his sister Mairi Macdonald is present - in Ottawa during an unidentified ceremony in Ottawa, ON, a photograph of a newspaper article about C.P.R. Chief, 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, the publication agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and Martinus Nijhoff Publisher regarding the work "derogations under the article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights" of 1997, consulta contract between Ronald St. John Macdonald and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization regarding the framework of the United Nations Development Program "strengthenin training and research in selected key universities in the People's Republic of China", annotated typescripts, handwritten notes, and other materials.