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Material in this file consists of correspondence between Mary Robinson and Blake Kenny solicitors, Galway who represented a Garage proprietor in Galway and includes brief, an extract from the Treaty of Accession to the European Economic Community and cover letter requesting her legal opinion (16/12/1982) and reply promising same (21/12/1982). No further documentation.

Letter from Fachtna McCarthy, Collins Brooks and Associates, solicitors to Mary Robinson, Senior Counsel, in relation to notice of change of solicitor in High Court Matrimonial proceedings of O'Keeffe v O'Keeffe, which would see an end of his involvement, 03/07/1989. Letter has handwritten notation on rear.

File consists of letter from Terence Cosgrave of Terence Cosgrave & Co solicitors, to Mary Robinson (MR) thanking her for her legal opinion and asking a follow-up question (30/05/1990); reply from Ann Lane, Personal Assistant for MR, informing Cosgrave that MR was on Presidential campaign trail and suggesting he seek alternative Counsel (09/10/1990); letter from Cosgrave on behalf of client Mrs Faulkner, requesting recommendations for alternative Counsel and reply from Lane regretting that it was not appropriate for MR to do so (25-29/1/1991); handwritten note from Collette [?] relating to phone call from Faulkner requesting all documents relating to her case which MR still had and which were urgently needed for possible appeal, 199[?].

Case relates to an American citizen, “seized on American soil away from any recognized or traditional field of battle and held incommunicado for more than a year without any charge being filed against him, without any access to counsel, and without any right to challenge the basis for his detention before a United States judge or magistrate", as per "Amici's Interest" in brief.

Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004), was a United States Supreme Court case, in which José Padilla, an American citizen, sought habeas corpus relief against Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, as a result of his detention by the military as an "unlawful combatant."

The case was petitioned to the United States Supreme Court. The principal issue before the Court was whether the Congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force post September 11, 2001, gave the president the powers to detain a United States citizen under military custody by classifying the detainee as an "enemy combatant."

This material was possibly used by Mary Robinson for research or reference.

Two copies of published Brief "Nos. 03-334 & 03-343 in the Supreme Court of the United States Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah, et al., Petitioners, and Shafiq Rasul et al., Petitioners, v United States, et al., Respondents and George W. Bush, et al., Respondents. On Writs of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Brief of the International Commission of Jurists and the American Association for the International Commission of Jurists, Amici Curiae, Supporting Petitioners".

Rasul v Bush was a landmark decision of the United States (US) Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of habeas corpus to review the legality of their detention. The Court's 6–3 judgment on June 28, 2004, reversed a D.C. Circuit decision which had held that the judiciary has no jurisdiction to hear any petitions from foreign nationals held in Guantanamo Bay. The lead petitioner, British citizen Shafiq Rasul, was one of the Tipton Three. The US transported the three men to the United Kingdom in March 2004 before the decision was handed down, and the government released them the next day.

This material was either used for research or reference purposes by Mary Robinson, or she was involved through her work with the International Commission of Jurists, of which she was a member.

Kiki Camarena, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug cartel in 1985. After an investigation, the DEA concluded that Humberto Álvarez-Machaín had participated in the murder. A warrant for his arrest was issued by a federal district court. The DEA, however, was unable to convince Mexico to extradite Álvarez-Machaín, so they hired several Mexican nationals to capture him and bring him back to the United States. His subsequent trial was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which found that the government could try a person who had been forcibly abducted, but that the abduction itself might violate international law and provide grounds for a civil suit.

Material includes email printout of correspondence between Harold Koh. Counsel of Record and Professor of International Law, Yale University, Benjamin Hensler, Yale University and Mary Robinson (MR) asking if she would serve as amicus curiae in a brief to be filed in case of Sosa v Alvarez-Machain, 11/02/2004; email print out of correspondence between MR, Koh and (Lord) Anthony Lester, Queen’s Counsel including printed attachment of draft brief 22-23/02/2004; print out of email from Koh to multiple recipients and attached pdf of copy of Brief of Amici Curiae International Jurists in Support of affirmance in Sosa v Alvarez-Machain, 28/02/2004; published Brief "No. 03-339 in the Supreme Court of the United States José Francisco Sosa, Petitioner, v Humberto Alvarez-Machain, Respondent. On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Brief of Amici Curiae International Jurists in Support of Affirmance", 2004.

MR’s involvement in this case is as one of International Commission of Jurists and was amicus curiae.

Also included in this file is correspondence from Koh to MR in relation to another Amicus brief "Hamdi v Rumsfeld" which MR was happy to join as lead amicus, 18/10/2003-18/02/2004.

Dominique Green, a death row inmate, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, 26/10/2004. Green was 18 when he robbed Andrew Lastrapes Jr outside a Houston convenience store, but he maintained until he died that he did not shoot him. Two of three accomplices were convicted of aggravated robbery and received prison terms. The third was not tried for the crime. Green was granted a reprieve hours before the scheduled execution which was then overturned. The execution went forward despite an 11th-hour appeal to the US Supreme Court. In the weeks before the execution, the family of the man Green was convicted of murdering joined in the struggle to have Green’s sentence commuted.

Material consists of print out of email from Judge Sheila M. Murphy (email address from Kathryn Gough) to Mary Robinson (MR) requesting her to join as amicus, 16/02/2004 with handwritten notated reply from MR declining which was then crossed out; printout of fax to MR from Murphy, 26/02/2004, requesting she look over attached Writ of Certiorari recently filed with the Supreme Court, ahead of Amicus Brief which was due following month.

It is unclear whether MR accepted invitation to join the Amicus brief.

Material consists of print out of email "Int[ernational] Amicus Alert - Castlerock v Gonzales", from Jordan J Paust, Law Foundation Professor, University of Houston, to list of recipients, 03/02/2005; print out of email sent from Peter Weiss to Mary Robinson (MR) in relation to the denial of permission to file amici brief in "Kiobel case", 03/11/2010.

It is unclear what MR’s involvement was in either case.

Material in this file relates to the Japanese textile plant, ASAHI, and their application for licence under Pollution Control provisions for the Fisheries Acts in 1975.

File includes letter from Mayo County Council to An Taisce enclosing copies of the application form and supporting documentation submitted by Asahi, 03/05/1974; letter from RP Power, New Industries Division, Industrial Development Authority Ireland (IDA) to J O'Loughlin Kennedy, Director of An Taisce, in relation to SO2 concentrations which could be expected at the beaches of Easkey and Enniscrone, County Sligo, due to Asahi development at Killala, 21/05/1974; copy of document on Ballina Regional Water Supply Scheme, Mayo County Council delivered at IDA/Asahi meeting, Ballina, 23/05/1974; planning permission (02/08/1974), conditions and copy of Agreement made between Mayo County Council and Asahi Synthetic Fibres (Ireland) Limited and Asahi Spinning (Ireland) Limited, 31/07/1974; document from Mayo County Council on proposed development noting members of the council Engineering staff and representatives of the Japanese firm were prepared to meet with local organisations to deal with any queries, 197[4/5?]; report on visit by P.P. Donovan, MSc PhD, and Public Analyst and Dr Liam O'Se, TD [Teachta Dála, member of Dáil Éireann, lower house of Irish parliament], County Medical Officer to Water Research Centre, Stevenage, United Kingdom, 05/09/1974; photocopy of confidential report to Mayo County Council on tidal float surveys in Killala Bay, from Water Resources Division, An Foras Forbartha, [National Institute for Physical Planning and Construction Research Limited, which later is subsumed into the Environmental Protection Agency] 09/1974; photocopy of news release, statement by Asahi company on a press release issued by the Ballina Board of Conservators in February 1975, 13/03/1975; typed report of objections re proposal to lay industrial effluent outfall pipeline on the foreshore at Killa[la] Bay, background info on company, PP Donovan, MSc PhD, 17/05/1975; copy of typed press release from Ballina Board of Conservators, 197[5?]; photocopy of letter of objection to granting of permission for pipeline sent from John O'Loughlin, Kennedy, An Taisce to Secretary, Department of Transport & Power, 23/05/1975; Report on Industrial Developments at Killala Bay, E. Hannan, Chief Executive Officer, Western Health Board to members of the Ballina Board of Conservators, 30/05/1975; photocopies of correspondence received by Western Health Board from Seán Tobin, Board member, including several queries, June 1975; typed letter, and copy, to Senator Mary Robinson (MR) from [Breen?] representing several Fishing Organisations objecting to placing of the Asahi effluent pipe in the location chosen, 10/07/1975; background research material including photocopies of articles on effect of some nitrites on fish, n.d., copies of epidemiological study of health impairment among acrylonitrile workers, n.d., photocopy of extract from Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, hand drawn maps on graph paper of location of pipeline; photocopy of letter from James Farrell, Hon Secretary, Irish Federation of Sea Anglers, to Minister, Department of Transport and Power, in relation to their concern with the effluent disposal arrangements at the proposed factory of Asahi Chemical Industries Ltd at Tawnaghmore, Killala Bay, 16/07/1975; document "Asahi Dublin Port Development - Lifeline to the West" and cover letter from Goro Yoshizaki, Managing Director, Asahi Synthetic Fibres (Ireland) Limited, stating much of controversy based on misinformation 17/07/1975; letter from Mervyn Clarke, Radiologist and member of Board [Ballina Board of Conservators?] to MR which accompanied some of research material on Acrylonitrile, vinyl cyanide, and which states that the board does not consider the Industrial Research and Standards as an independent body since they had been retained by Mayo County Council; photocopy of letter enclosing licence under the Pollution Control Provisions of the fisheries Act, from P.J. Maloney, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, to Goro Yoshizaki, Asahi Chemical Industry (Ireland) Ltd., 29/07/1975; letter from O'Loughlin Kennedy, An Taisce to MR referring to useful meeting with Asahi, 30/07/1975; handwritten notes including list of members of deputation to see Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries [Department], and Minister for Transport & Power, 31 July [1975] which includes MR as Senator and lists Adrian Bourke, bother of MR, as legal advisor; circular from Western Health Board to members re board meeting, 06/10/1975 to discuss queries raised by Seán Tobin, 30/09/1975; letter to Senator MR from office of Minister for Transport and Power in relation to the licence Minister offered to Asahi and issues she raised in previous correspondence, 15/10/1975; letter from O'Loughlin Kennedy to MR which she forwarded to Adrian Bourke, outlining general contents of conditions of licence agreement, 21-27/10/1975; photocopy of letter from Department of Transport and Power to Adrian Bourke outlining reasons licence was granted, 12/11/1975; letter from David Holden to MR relating to next meeting to be held (of deputation?) 21/11/1975; letter from Toshinori Onodera, Managing Director, Asahi to MR, enclosing updated brochure, 23/02/1976; letter to MR from member of public, James J Baskerville asking that she take action and enclosing letter he wrote to Irish times in 1975, 26/02/1977; cuttings 05/03/1975-11/7/1977.

File consists of letter from Richard Wolfe, City Solicitor, Limerick Corporation to Eleanor McPhillips, Treasurer, Irish Society for the Study and Practice of European Law, outlining problem Corporation had with a meat plant it had erected at considerable cost five years previously which needed to increase its throughput to make it viable but required an export licence which Government decided not to grant, and seeking advice on whether Corporation could challenge Government's decision as being contrary to European Economic Community (EEC) legislation, 19/01/1976; document "Export to EEC Countries of Frozen Carcase Meat", 18/02/1976 which gave advice; letter from Woulfe to Mr Hugh Fitzpatrick, thanking him for information he had sent [possibly copy of document, 18/02/1976?]; newspaper cuttings 18/02/1976.

Unclear from file what Mary Robinson’s involvement was.