Dave Snow

Dave Snow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Assisted Reproduction Policy in Canada: Framing, Federalism, and Failure, (2018, University of Toronto Press). He is also the co-author (with F.L. Morton) of the edited textbook Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 5th edition (2024, University of Calgary Press).

Dave's research and teaching interests include public policy, criminal justice, constitutional law, and federalism. He currently holds a SSHRC Insight Grant to empirically evaluate the Supreme Court of Canada's jurisprudence on reasonable limits on Charter rights.

1. Sigalet, Geoffrey, and Dave Snow. 2025. “Notwithstanding Centralism: The Resurgence of the Notwithstanding Clause and the Conservative Provincial Rights Movement.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 58 (3): 516-537.
2. Morton, F.L., and Dave Snow (eds). 2024. Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada. 5th edition. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
3. Snow, Dave. 2022. “The Social Construction of Naturopathic Medicine in Canadian Newspapers.” Policy Studies 43 (2): 312-332.
4. Nicolaides, Eleni, and Dave Snow. 2021. “A Paper Tiger No More? The Media Portrayal of the Notwithstanding Clause in Saskatchewan and Ontario.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 54 (1): 60-74.
5. Snow, Dave. 2017. “Litigating Parentage: Equality Rights, LGBTQ Mobilization and Ontario’s All Families Are Equal Act.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 32 (3): 329-348.