Letter from Ignacio Arroyo, Harvard Law School Association of Europe to association members in relation to next meeting to be held, 10/01/2002; letter from Robert G Stone Jr, Senior Fellow, Harvard Corporation and chair, Presidential Search Committee, to members of the Harvard Community in relation to announcement by Neil Rudenstine, 26th President of Harvard, that he was concluding his tenure, and asking for assistant in search for new President, 08/2000, with cover note from Michael Cullinan to Mary Robinson (MR) saying he had sent her name to Search Committee, 15/09/2000; material relating to MR's visit to Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government to give speech at Forum event, September 2002, including correspondence between MR, Scott Jerbi, Jacqueline Bhabha, Executive Director, and Molly Curran, Coordinator, University Committee on Human Rights Studies, Harvard University, 30/08-08/10/2002, background material including United Nations Office of High Commissioner report "Draft Guidelines: Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies" and text of address "Making Human rights Matter", 30/09/2002; letter from Bhaba to MR in relation to Human Rights [education/research?] at Harvard and possible future collaborations including with EGI [Realizing Rights - Ethical Globalization Initiative], along with copy of case study on Cambodian textile industry, by Regina Abrami, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, 25/06/2003.

Material relating to Convocation, 23/05/2018, Harvard University, at which Mary Robinson gave convocation address, consisting of programme, invite to dinner to honour candidates for honorary degrees, booklet with menu, entertainment and honorary degree candidates’ information and newspaper cutting from Boston Globe, 22/05/2018 of Boston College graduates.

Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) including letter from Anne Norton, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Sciences, UPenn, thanking MR for speaking with "them" [?] in Chicago, 20/09/2004, letters of thanks from Afaf I Meleis, Dean of Nursing, UPenn, for MR's contribution to Penn Summit on Global Issues in Women's Health, with programme for conference "Safe Womanhood in an Unsafe World", 25/04-09/05/2005, and email notice relating to MR's appearance at Columbia University for book-signing of "A Voice for Human rights: Mary Robinson", edited by Kevin Boyle, 20/01/2006. Also included is printout of webpage relating to UPenn's summer abroad scheme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, printed outdated 30/01/2001.

Material relating to the establishment of the Asian University for Women (AUW), Bangladesh, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s involvement including faxed letter from Mrs Lone Dybkjaer, MEP and co-chair International Support committee, AUW, welcoming MR to the committee, 07/11/2001; press release announcing signing of Binding Memorandum at European Parliament, 29/01/2002; ringbound background information on AUW, published by its Support Foundation, New York, 200[2?], including copy of memorandum of understand, charter, and letters seeking funding; typed message from MR on ceremony of groundbreaking for the campus of AUW, 08/01/2004; correspondence from Kamal Ahmad to MR in relation to negotiations with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for major grant, 20/08-24/10/2005; card with handwritten note from [Kamal?] wishing MR a happy new year and thanking her for her continuing engagement until new Board of Trustees is in place, 01/2007.

Material relating to London School of Economics and Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with them including letter from Anthony Giddens, Director LSE, thanking MR for talks she gave, 24/10/2002, and handwritten letter of thanks from Conor [Gearty], 04/11/2002; Director’s report 1998-1999, flyer for LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, "Above the Parapet - Women in Public Life" 200[?] and LSE Institute of Public Affairs (with image of MR included in montage on cover) 200[?]; email correspondence between MR and Zoe Gillard, Centre Manager, Centre for the Study of Human rights, LSE, relating to tributes for Conor Gearty who was leaving the centre, and referring to MR launching the Centre on a previous occasion, 29/06/2009; email correspondence from Stephen Humphries, LSE including keynote speech he gave at LSE for United Nations Social Forum 2010 "Climate Change and Human Rights: Crisis and Utopia", and further emails from Gearty in relation to work Humphries was doing developing a course on human rights at LSE, 06-12/10/2010; itineraries, speaking points, handwritten notes, presentation slides and other material relating to LSE high level roundtable "Scaling-up ambition on climate action through equity and climate justice" [possibly overlapping with Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice], and note for facilitator Ravi Kanbur, note for presenters, note for co-chair Judge Slade, and concluding notes for MR, for second meeting of High Level Advisory Committee (HLAC) of the Climate Justice Dialogue 12-14/03/2014.

[Archivist's note: See also P143/3/17/19 and P143/3/20/6].

Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University covering her time as member of the Board of Overseers, as well as giving a talk. It includes correspondence from Paulo Pinheiro inviting MR to join the Board of Overseers, Watson Institute, on request from Tom Biersteker, Director, along with article "Monitoring human rights as a UN Special Rapporteur", and concept paper "United Nations Study on Violence Against Children", both by Pinheiro, 07/06/2003 and her acceptance, 25/08/2003; correspondence between MR and Biersteker in relation to the work of the institute, the make-up of the Board, and MR's participation at the Eighth Biennial Conference on the Holocaust November 2004, as well as her decision to resign from board due to work commitments and acceptance (draft letter) of role of Board member emerita, 17/09/2003-16/02/2006; correspondence between MR and Scott Jerbi, [colleague at Realizing Rights-Ethical Globalization Initiative?] in relation to the conference on the Holocaust, the Holocaust Educational Foundation behind the event and whether she was speaker or not, 15/10/2004*; correspondence between MR and Nancy Hamlin Soukup, media liaison for Watson Institute, regarding subject matter of MR's address, 01/11/2004; correspondence between MR and Kemal Ahmed, Managing Director, Brown University Investment Office, in which Ahmed notes the talk subject matter "is one of great sensitivity to a lot of Brown's wealthier alumni", as well as referencing a trial in Bahrain of rights activist and offering assistance, 03-04/11/2004; text of MR's address at Brown University "Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe: An Urgent Challenge", 07/11/2004; letter from John P Birkelund, announcing Biersteker's decision to step down as director and task of finding successor, 05/04/2005.

[*Archivist’s note: For material relating to campaign to rescind MR’s invite based on allegations of antisemitism, see P143/5/2/10].

This subseries consists of material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with Emory University, including giving various addresses and her role as advisor of World Law Institute, 2003-2008. P143/3/11/1 includes material surrounding controversy of MR being invited to accept honorary degree and role of keynote speaker in 2004, accusations she was anti-Semitic, backlash against the allegations and support and statement from the university.

Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with Emory University, including her role as advisor of World Law Institute, 2003-2004. It includes correspondence relating to MR's visit to give the Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecture in Public Office, [12?]/2003; correspondence relating to invitation to MR to accept honorary degree and be keynote speaker, 10 May 2004, correspondence and press material relating to petition attempting to have MR removed from list of Commencement speakers amid allegations she was anti-Semitic and referring to her handling of United Nations Anti-Racism conference in Durban, letters of support and articles refuting allegations against MR from Anthony Lester, Michael Posner, Melvin Konner, James W Flannery and others along with printout of letters to the press, official statement from Emory University on their decision not to remove MR from speaker list, correspondence relating to MR's own upset at the allegations and text of commencement address*; correspondence from Harold Berman inviting MR to be advisor on proposed World Law Institute, 13-14/04/2004 and programme 12/2004.

[*Archivist’s note: For further material relating to campaign to rescind MR’s invite based on allegations of antisemitism, see P143/5/2/10].

Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with Emory University, including her role as advisor of World Law Institute, 2005-2008. It includes correspondence, programme and draft address relating to Institute of Human Rights, Emory University conference "Lessons Learned from Rights Based Approaches to Health", 20/07/2004-14/04/2005; correspondence between Prof Berman, Prof Van der Vyver and MR relating to invite to serve as keynote speaker at conference "World Law and World Heath: Especially Health of Women in Developing Countries", Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 22-24 March 2007, her initial acceptance and subsequent regrets due to clash with meeting in Geneva of task force on migration and health she was chairing for the Global Alliance Network, and subsequent arrangements for a video message to be sent instead, and 22/02/2006-10/04/2007; correspondence between MR and Amy Tozer, Director of Student Publications, relating to agreements between MR and Emory International Law Review for her address in Atlanta conference to be published, 14-22/07/2008.

This subseries consists of material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with Columbia University, 2003-2011, including that relating to her position as Professor of Practice in the Dept of International and Public Affairs, as advisor to Columbia's Earth Institute and as a senior research scholar at Columbia Law School's HR institute. She was also on the Advisory Committee of the Samuel Rubin Program for the Advancement of Liberty and Equality through Law and Forum's Special Advisor Council.

Some course work was prepared with assistance of Heather Grady (HG), Managing Director, Realizing Rights - The Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI) and Scott Jerbi, (Senior Advisor), and Robinson, in turn, assisted HG in delivering course work.