Recent Developments in Criminal Law and Evidence

Vanessa MacDonnell is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and counsel at Russomanno Criminal Law. She is an expert in constitutional theory, criminal law and the law of evidence. Vanessa's current research examines how political actors interpret and implement constitutional rights. Her work is comparative and draws on constitutional law and theory from a range of jurisdictions. Vanessa also writes regularly on the role of the jury in contemporary criminal law. In 2015, Vanessa appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada as co-counsel for the intervener Criminal Lawyer's Association in R v Saeed.