Minh Do
Assistant Professor
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Criminal Justice and Public Policy, Department of Political Science
About
Minh Do is an Assistant Professor and her research interests lie at the intersection of Canadian law and politics, public policy, and Indigenous politics. She is particularly interested in how judicial decisions structure policy actors' behaviours, choices, and strategies.
Her work to date has been published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science and the International Journal of Canadian Studies. Her book project focuses on the implementation of the duty to consult and accommodate Indigenous peoples in B.C.'s Environmental Assessment process. She completed her BA at the University of Victoria, MA at the University of Waterloo, and PhD at the University of Toronto.
Select Publications
Do, Minh. Process as Power: The Legitimacy of Indigenous Consultation in British Columbia Environmental Assessments. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2026.
Do, Minh, Hayley Russell, and Robert Schertzer. “Sticking to Our Lanes: A Survey of Selected Studies on Federalism, Aboriginal rights, and Charter jurisprudence in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science (2025): 1-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423925100966.
McNabb, Danielle and Minh Do. “The Perils and promise of Indigenous legal mobilization: revisiting Ktunaxa nation.” Dalhousie Law Review 48, no. 1 (2025): 205-235.
Do, Minh and Kate Puddister. “After the Injunction: The Role of the Courts in Policing Indigenous Resistance in B.C.” Canadian Journal of Native Studies 42, no. 1 (2025): 1-24.
Do, Minh. “An Honourable Parliament? Section 35 and Legislative Rights Review.” In Rights and Parliamentary Systems in Canada and Beyond, ed. Emmett Macfarlane, 32-50. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025.
Do, Minh and Robert Schertzer. “How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law.” Law and Social Inquiry 49, no. 1 (2024): 478-508.
Do, Minh, Amy Janzwood, and Kristen Pue. “Multilevel Governance, Climate Vulnerability, and Colonial Injustice – Evidence from First Nations Disaster Evacuations in Canada.” Critical Policy Studies 18, no. 2 (2024): 247-270.
Do, Minh. “Salient Indigenous Acts of Resistance in Canada, 2010-2020: Current Trends.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 56, no. 4 (2023): 936-949.
Do, Minh. “Beyond Consultation: A Research Agenda to Investigate Partnerships in Co-Management in Land Governance,” in Constitutional Crossroads: Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change, eds. Emmett Macfarlane and Kate Puddister, 384-400. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022.
Do, Minh. “The Duty to Consult and Reconciliation: The Supreme Court’s Idea of the Purpose and Practice of Consulting Indigenous Peoples.” International Journal of Canadian Studies 58 (2021): 73-91.
Do, Minh. “Throughput Legitimacy and the Duty to Consult: The Limits of the Law to Produce Quality Interactions in British Columbia’s EA Process.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 53, no. 3 (2020): 577-595.