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Item is the written text of this paper delivered by Mandel at the sociology of law workshop, presented by the Canadian Society of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Laval.

Paper prepared for the Federal-Provincial Steering Committee on Inmates' Rights and Responsibilities.

Series consists of files pertaining to Mandel’s work as a political activist. These records document the nature and breadth of Mandel’s involvement with issues including prison reform, abortion rights, the US invasion of Nicaragua, Israel and Palestine, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mandel’s advocacy work as a lawyer and his involvement with legal cases and submissions to boards of inquiry and/or commissions are also documented in this series. Records in this series include correspondence, research materials, legal documents, newspaper clippings, press releases, speaking notes and petitions.

Files in this subseries primarily consist of correspondence and memoranda created and/or acquired by Mandel in his role as a professor and administrator at Osgoode Hall Law School. These records pertain to Mandel’s teaching load and academic work, Osgoode administrative subjects, and his involvement with Osgoode’s Italian law course and exchange program with the University of Bologna. Many of the correspondence files in this series also include letters concerning Mandel’s non-academic activities, including his writing and activism pertaining to prison reform and anti-war campaigns. Files documenting Mandel’s involvement with an Osgoode Hall Law School cafeteria boycott in 1987-88 are also part of this subseries.

File consists of letters pertaining to the activities of the Ligue des Droits De l'Homme, Concerned Canadians for Lebanon, and a group opposed to the Mike Harris government in Ontario.

Item is a submission made by Mandel and fellow lawyer David Jacobs serving as notice of the existence of information concerning serious violations of international humanitarian law within the jurisdiction of the tribunal and a request that the prosecutor investigate leaders of NATO countries for violations of international humanitarian law in the bombing of the former Yugoslavia.

File pertains to Mandel's participation at this conference at the Universita Delgi Studi di Salerno, specifically his seminar entitled "Come l'America la fa franca con la giustizia internazionale".

Series consists of correspondence sent and received by Mandel pertaining to a wide variety of topics, but it primarily concerns his professional life, including his writing, political activism and media appearances. Many files include copies of Mandel’s outgoing letters as well as incoming correspondence.

File pertains to Mandel's political activism regarding weapons disarmament, the US and Nicaragua, and the PLO.

File includes correspondence from prisoners responding to Mandel's writing about parole reform.

File consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence pertaining in part to Mandel's work supporting prisoners and his position as a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.

File pertains to a complaint filed with the Law Society of Upper Canada by lawyer Harry Kopyto and other lawyers including Mandel regarding Robert Kaplan, Solicitor-General of Canada.

File pertains to Mandel's submissions to the tribunal regarding the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia.

File consists of journal articles, newspaper clippings, flyers, information sheets, items of correspondence received by Mandel and copies of some of his outgoing letters and memoranda regarding his involvement with the Canadian-Palestine Solidarity Committee.

File pertains to Mandel's work to charge NATO leaders with war crimes for its bombing campaign and his appearance before the House of Commons' Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on 22 February 2000.

File pertains in part to correspondence from Mandel and others sent to Canada's UN ambassador, Stephen Lewis, requesting Canada's defence of Nicaragua from the United States.

File consists of correspondence exchanged between Greenspan, Osgoode Hall Law School dean Peter W. Hogg and Mandel pertaining to the withdrawal of a financial gift to the law school from the Greenspans in protest of an article written by Mandel about criminal lawyers.

File consists of letters exchanged between Mandel and then-Premier of Ontario Mike Harris regarding the Ontario Taxpayer Dividend.

File pertains Mandel's correspondence with RCMP commissioner Robert H. Simmonds regarding a document released by the Department of Justice entitled "The position of the Attorney General of Canada on certain recommendations of the McDonald Commission". A copy of that document is included in the file.

File pertains to Mandel's involvement with a labour dispute at the Osgoode Hall Law School cafeteria.

Subseries consists of course materials, mainly course readings but also lecture notes, examination papers, syllabi and course descriptions, created and/or used by Mandel for his courses taught at Osgoode Hall Law School. Some materials pertaining to courses taught by Mandel in the Political Science department at McMaster University and at the University of Bologna are also included in this subseries.

Mandel was the counsel for the appellant in this Supreme Court of Ontario case.

Item is a transcript for a court proceeding in which Mandel served as counsel for the complainant.

File consists of the final copy edit of Mandel's essay for the University of Richmond Law Review with Mandel's comments about the edit.

Flyer pertains to Mandel's lecture at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Center.