Vanessa MacDonnell, “Examining Chief Justice McLachlin’s Judicial Leadership” in Rosalind Dixon & Erin Delaney, eds, Judicial Heroines? Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024) (forthcoming)
Vanessa MacDonnell, “Introduction: Justice Abella & Feminist Judicial Method” in Vanessa MacDonnell, Stephen Bindman & Gerald Chan, eds, Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella: A Life of Firsts (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2024) (forthcoming)
Vanessa MacDonnell & Keenan Macneal, “Four Stories about Canada’s Separation of Powers Doctrine” in Wolfgang Alschner, Vanessa MacDonnell & Carissima Mathen, eds, De(Coding) the Court: Legal Data Insights into Canada’s Supreme Court (London: Routledge, 2024) 37-59
Wolfgang Alschner, Vanessa MacDonnell & Vanessa MacDonnell, “Introduction” in Wolfgang Alschner, Vanessa MacDonnell & Carissima Mathen, eds, De(Coding) the Court: Legal Data Insights into Canada’s Supreme Court (London: Routledge, 2024) 1-13
Vanessa MacDonnell, “The Enduring Wisdom of the Purposive Approach to Charter Interpretation” in Kerri Froc, Howard Kislowicz & Richard Moon, eds, The Surprising Constitution (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2024) 369-393
Philippe Lagassé and Vanessa MacDonnell, “Writing Canada’s Political Constitution” (2023) 48:2 Queen’s Law Journal 27-60
Vanessa MacDonnell and Philippe Lagassé, “Investigating the Legal and Political Contours of Unwritten Constitutional Principles After City of Toronto” (2023) 110 Supreme Court Law Review 51-75
Vanessa MacDonnell, “Theorizing about the Executive in the Modern State” (2023) 21 International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming)
"Treaty Promises and the Duty to Consult on Legislation" (2021) 51 Revue générale de droit 205 (with Jula Hughes)
"Le Parlement et les tribunaux" (2021) 51 Revue générale de droit 7 (with Charles Feldman)
“Policing Arbitrariness: Fleming v Ontario and the Ancillary Powers Doctrine” (2021) 100 Supreme Court Law Review 187 (with Terry Skolnik)
"The Pervasive Constitution: The Constitution Outside the Courts" (2020) 48:4 Federal Law Review 437 (with Gabrielle Appleby and Ed Synot)
“Ensuring Executive and Legislative Accountability in a Pandemic” in Colleen Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Sophie Thériault, Jane Philpott & Sridhar Venkatapuram, eds, Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020)
“An Overview of COVID-19: Old and New Vulnerabilities” in Colleen Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Sophie Thériault, Jane Philpott & Sridhar Venkatapuram, eds, Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020) (with Colleen Flood, Sophie Thériault, Jane Philpott & Sridhar Venkatapuram)
“Re-Thinking the “Invisible Constitution”: How Unwritten Constitutional Principles Shape Political Decision-Making” (2019) 65:2 McGill Law Journal 175
"Justice Suzanne Côté’s Reputation as a Dissenter on the Supreme Court of Canada” (2019) 88 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 47
"Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) as Constitutional Implementation" (2018) 96:2 Canadian Bar Review 372
"Introduction" in Richard Albert, Paul Daly & Vanessa MacDonnell, eds, The Canadian Constitution in Transition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018) (with Richard Albert & Paul Daly)
"The Reductionism of Global Models of Constitutional Rights" (2018) 12:1 Journal of Law & Ethics of Human Rights 73
"The Right to a Representative Jury: Beyond Kokopenace" (2017) 64 Criminal Law Quarterly 334
"The New Parliamentary Sovereignty" (2016) 21:1 Review of Constitutional Studies 13
"A Theory of Quasi-Constitutional Legislation" (2016) 53:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 508
"The Civil Servant's Role in the Implementation of Constitutional Rights" (2015) 13:2 International Journal of Constitutional Law 383
"The New Self-Defence Law: Progressive Development or Status Quo?" (2014) 92:2 Canadian Bar Review 301
"Equality & Incrementalism? The Role of Common Law Reasoning in Constitutional Rights Cases" (2014) 44:3 Ottawa Law Review 467 (with Jula Hughes & Karen Pearlston)
"Internet Surveillance and Popular Constitutionalism" in George Williams, Fergal Davis & Nicola McGarrity, eds, Surveillance, Counter-Terrorism and Comparative Constitutionalism (Oxford: Routledge, 2014) 313
"The Jury Vetting Cases: New Insights on Jury Trials in Criminal Cases?" (2013) 63 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 419
"The Constitution as Framework for Governance" (2013) 63:4 University of Toronto Law Journal 624
"Social Science Evidence in German and Canadian Constitutional Law: Some Comparative Observations" (2013) 32:1 National Journal of Constitutional Law 23 (with Jula Hughes)
"The German Abortion Decisions and the Protective Function in German and Canadian Constitutional Law" (2013) 50:4 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 999 (with Jula Hughes)
"R v Sinclair: A New Trend in Balancing Individual Rights Against Societal Interests Outside of Section One of the Charter" (2012) 38 Queen's Law Journal 137
"Developments in Constitutional Law, 2011-2012 Term" (2012) 59 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 51
"Assessing the Impact of the Ancillary Powers Doctrine on Three Decades of Charter Jurisprudence" (2012) 58 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 225
"The Protective Function and Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms" (2012) 17 Review of Constitutional Studies 53