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Macdonald, Ronald St. John

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Title Lieutenant (RCN(R))
Official Number U-44800
 
Birth 20/08/1928 Death 07/09/2006
Place Montreal Place Halifax
Area QC Area NS
Country Canada Country Canada
 
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Honours CC;
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Qualifications LLB; LLM;
 
Biography
He he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 from St. Francis Xavier University, a Bachelor of Law degree in 1952 from Dalhousie Law School, and two Master of Law degrees, from the University of London in 1954, and from Harvard Law School in 1955. He taught at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University (1955 to 1959), the University of Western Ontario (1959 to 1961), the University of Toronto (1961 to 1972), and finally Dalhousie University (1972 to 1990). He was also Dean of Law at the University of Toronto from 1967 to 1972 and at Dalhousie University from 1972 to 1979. He was the only non-European judge of the European Court of Human Rights, where he served from 1980 to 1998. He was the first Westerner appointed as Honorary Professor of Law at China's Peking University. He is the founding President of the Canadian Council on International Law and was President of the World Academy of Arts and Science from 1983 to 1987. He served as arbitrator in the Republic of Cyprus 1974-1978, and was an adviser and consultant to the Prime Minister's office and to external affairs.
 
Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCN(R) 1946. (CFR) He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant RCN(R) (With seniority dated 01/09/1949). In 1948-1949 he served in HMCS Scotian for UNTD. He was appointed as an A/Lieutenant RCN(R). He served in HMCS Scotian. (He was released.)
 
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Anecdotes
He was awarded honorary degrees from McGill University, Dalhousie University, and Carleton University. In 1999, he was awarded the Canadian Bar Association's Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law in recognition of "outstanding contribution to the law or legal scholarship in Canada". He also was awarded honorary degrees from McGill University, Dalhousie University, and Carleton University. Bill Clearihue reports that "Contrary to the Wiki blurb, he did not serve in WWII as a SLT and probably not at all as he would have turned 17 in Aug 1945."
 
References
The Navy List Volumes I, II and III (HMSO London); Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD); https://apps.osgoode.yorku.ca/osgmedia.nsf/0/CD80C2EAB5989FE78525720A006167BB/$FILE/Ronald%20St%20John%20Macdonald%20and%20Legal%20Ed.pdf; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_St._John_Macdonald; http://www.law.utoronto.ca/documents/stern/utopia_without_apology.pdf;
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2015-04-03 00:00:00

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