
Vanessa MacDonnell
@vanessa_macd
Law professor @uocommonlaw; Co-Director @uodroitpublaw. Tweets on criminal, constitutional and comparative constitutional law (she/her)
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https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/common-law/faculty/macdonnell-vanessa 14-09-2010 00:18:05
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I'm incredibly humbled to see the second paper from my doctoral dissertation U of T Law in print in the Modern Law Review.


love the generosity of this answer by Andrew Bernstein, himself a truly gifted lawyer. 🤩


It was a pleasure to visit Western Law yesterday and deliver this lecture to the fantastic comparative constitutional law class. Many thanks to Akis Psygkas (https://akispsygkas.bsky.social/) for the invitation and the warm welcome!





A busy week uOttawa | COMMON LAW catching up with fantastic colleagues, planning out my research agenda for the coming year(s) and best of all, meeting the new Centre de droit public uOttawa Public Law Centre dog-in-residence, Lucy.


Looking forward to hearing Seána Glennon speak about her research on deliberative minipublics on Nov 13. Register now!





Happening tomorrow: my lecture Centre for Constitutional Studies on the exciting potential for deliberative minipublics in achieving legal change. I’ll be discussing the reform of Ireland’s law on abortion & possibilities for enhanced citizen deliberation in Canada. Register for the webinar:

