BOOKS
Malcolmson, Patrick, Richard Myers, Gerald Baier, Thomas M.J. Bateman, and Dave Snow. 2026 (forthcoming). The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada. 8th edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Morton, F.L., and Dave Snow. 2024. Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada. 5^th edition. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

Snow, Dave. 2018. Assisted Reproduction Policy in Canada: Framing, Federalism, and Failure. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Morton, F.L., and Dave Snow. 2018. Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada. 4^th edition. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
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. doi: 10.1017/S0008423925000034.

Harding, Mark, and Dave Snow. 2023. “From the Ivory Tower to the Courtroom: Cooperative Federalism in the Supreme Court of Canada.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 53(1): 106-132.

Snow, Dave. 2022. “The Social Construction of Naturopathic Medicine in Canadian Newspapers.” Policy Studies 43 (2): 312-332.

Snow, Dave. 2021. “A Survey of Regulated Naturopathic Doctors in Canada: Demographics, Governance, and Public Understanding.” Health Law in Canada Journal 42 (2): 42-56.

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.

Train, Andrew, and Dave Snow. 2019. “Cannabis Policy Diffusion in Ontario and New Brunswick: Coercion, Learning, and Replication.” Canadian Public Administration 62 (4): 549-572.

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.

Knopff, Rainer, Rhonda Evans, Dennis Baker, and Dave Snow. 2017. “Dialogue: Clarified and Reconsidered.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 54 (2): 605-640.

Baylis, Françoise, Alana Cattapan, and Dave Snow. 2017. “Editorial Misconduct.” Public Affairs Quarterly 31 (2): 143-155.

Cattapan, Alana, and Dave Snow. 2017. “Everything and Nothing: Regulating Embryo Research in Canada.” New Genetics and Society 36 (1): 46-65.

Snow, Dave. 2016. “Measuring Parentage Policy in the Canadian Provinces: A Comparative Framework.” Canadian Public Administration 59 (1): 5-25.

Snow, Dave. 2016. “Criminalising Commercial Surrogacy in Canada and Australia: The Political Construction of ‘National Consensus’.” Australian Journal of Political Science 50 (4): 1-15.

Snow, Dave, and Mark S. Harding. 2015. “From Normative Debates to Comparative Methodology: The Three Waves of Post-Charter Supreme Court Scholarship in Canada.” American Review of Canadian Studies 45 (4): 451-466.

Cattapan, Alana, and Dave Snow. 2015 “Of Research and Reproduction: Defining Embryo ‘Research’ in Canada.” Monash Bioethics Review 33 (4): 379-395.

Snow, Dave, Françoise Baylis, and Jocelyn Downie. 2015. “Why the Government of Canada Won’t Regulate Assisted Human Reproduction: A Modern Mystery.” McGill Journal of Law and Health 9 (1): 1-15.

Snow, Dave, Alana Cattapan, and Françoise Baylis. 2015. “Contesting Estimates of Cryopreserved Embryos in the United States.” Nature Biotechnology 33 (9): 909.

Snow, Dave. 2015. “Blunting the Edge: Federalism, Criminal Law, and the Importance of Legislative History after the Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act.” University of British Columbia Law Review 48 (2): 541-592.

Snow, Dave. 2015. “Explaining a Policy Failure: Policy Framing, Federalism, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada.” Canadian Public Policy 41 (2): 124-136.

Snow, Dave. 2014. “Reproductive Autonomy and the Evolving Family in the Supreme Court of Canada: Implications for Assisted Reproductive Technologies.” Journal of Canadian Studies 48 (1): 153-189.

Baylis, Françoise, Jocelyn Downie, and Dave Snow. 2014. “Fake it Till You Make it: Policymaking and Assisted Human Reproduction in Canada.” Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada 36 (6): 510-512.

Snow, Dave. 2012. “The Judicialization of Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy in Canada: Decentralization, Medicalization, and Mandatory Regulation.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 27 (2): 169-188.

Snow, Dave, and Benjamin Moffitt. 2012. “Straddling the Divide: Mainstream Populism and Conservatism in Howard’s Australia and Harper’s Canada.” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 50(3): 271-292.

BOOK CHAPTERS
Snow, Dave. Forthcoming. “Political Revival, Scholarly Renaissance: Academic Writing on the Notwithstanding Clause, 1982-2023.” In Disciplinary Divides in the Study of Law and Politics. Emmett Macfarlane and Kate Puddister (eds). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Snow, Dave, and Eleni Nicolaides. 2022. “Notwithstanding the Media: Section 33 of the Charter after Toronto v. Ontario.” In Constitutional Crossroads: Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change. Emmett Macfarlane and Kate Puddister (eds). Vancouver: UBC Press, 121-139.

Snow, Dave. 2021. “Parentage Policy Diffusion in the Canadian Provinces.” In Provincial Policy Laboratories: Policy Diffusion and Transfer in Canada’s Federal System. Brendan Boyd and Andrea Olive (eds). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 32-48.

Snow, Dave, and Kate Puddister. 2018. “Closing a Door but Opening a Policy Window: Legislating Assisted Dying in Canada.” Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution, Emmett Macfarlane (ed). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 40-60.

Snow, Dave. 2016. “‘Just Like a Man Does’: Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Autonomy in Mad Men.” In Mad Men: The Death And Redemption Of American Democracy, Sara MacDonald and Andrew Moores (eds). Lanham: Lexington Books, 87-104.

PEER REVIEWED POLICY PAPERS

Snow, Dave. 2025. Promoting Excellence – Or Activism? Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Canada’s Federal Granting Agencies. Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Snow, Dave, and Richard Audas. 2024. Urban Violent Crime Report: A Look at Canada’s Major Cities. Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Snow, Dave, and Richard Audas. 2024. Report on the Criminal Justice System, Vol. 3. Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Snow, Dave. 2023. When Rights Clash: The Notwithstanding Clause and Saskatchewan’s Pronoun Policy. Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Snow, Dave, and Rainer Knopff. 2012. Assisted Reproduction Policy in Federal States: What Canada Should Learn from Australia. School of Public Policy Research Papers 5.12 (April): 1-28.

NON-PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Snow, Dave, and Alana Cattapan. 2015. “Editorial: Biobanking Eggs and Embryos for Research.” Monash Bioethics Review 33 (4): 231-237.

Cattapan, Alana, Samantha Copeland, and Dave Snow. 2015. “Meeting Report: Biobanking Eggs and Embryos for Research.” Society for the Social History of Medicine Gazette, 68 (February): 6-7

Knopff, Rainer, and Dave Snow. 2013. ‘Harper’s New Rules’ for Government Formation: Fact or Fiction? Canadian Parliamentary Review 36 (1): 18-27.

Snow, David. 2009. Notwithstanding the Override: Path Dependence, Section 33, and the Charter. Innovations: A Journal of Politics, 8 (1): 1-15.

BOOK REVIEWS
Snow, Dave. 2013. Review of Governing from the Bench: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role. Emmett Macfarlane. Canadian Journal of Political Science 46 (4): 983-985.

Snow, Dave. 2012.  Review of Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government. Peter Aucoin, Mark D. Jarvis, and Lori Turnbull. Canadian Public Policy 38 (1): 114-115.

OTHER POLICY PAPERS

Snow, Dave, and Ryan Alford. 2025. The Court Challenges Program: How your tax dollars fuel social justice activism through the courts. Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Helin, Calvin, and Dave Snow. 2010. Free to Learn: Giving Aboriginal Youth Control over Their Post-Secondary Education. Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy.

Snow, Dave. 2009. Ending Saskatchewan’s Prohibition-Era Approach to Liquor Stores. Frontier Centre for Public Policy. FCPP Policy Series 70 (September).

Snow, David. 2008. A Roof Over Our Heads 2008: Affordable Housing and Homelessness Policy in Canada. Canada West Foundation.

ONLINE COMMENTARIES

Snow, Dave. 2025. “DeepDive: Government subsidies for Canada’s media were supposed to be temporary, but they keep on growing—and could be here to stay.” The Hub, April 21.

Snow, Dave. 2025. “DeepDive: How the Online News Act has harmed journalistic objectivity.” The Hub, March 25.

Snow, Dave. 2025. “As the U.S. abandons DEI, Canada doubles down.” The Hub, February 4.

Snow, Dave. 2024. “Will Justin Trudeau prorogue Parliament in the new year? History shows there’s little political cost to the practice.” The Hub, December 2.

Snow, Dave. 2024. “The political power of a non-confidence motion—and how Poilievre is using them to set the Parliamentary agenda.” The Hub, October 16.

Snow, Dave. 2024. “The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will not be able to handle the deluge of cases from the Online Harms Act.” The Hub, August 6.

Snow, Dave. 2024. “The groundbreaking Cass Review on transgender care is shifting the debate abroad. Yet it was barely reported on by Canadian media.” The Hub, May 28.

Snow, Dave. 2024. “The federal government is spending millions on equity, diversity, and inclusion research.” The Hub, April 2.

Snow, Dave. 2024. “When political scientists get political.” The Hub, February 28.

Snow, Dave. 2024. “How Canadian Media Covered Claudine Gay’s Resignation from Harvard.” The Hub.

Snow, Dave. 2023. “Saskatchewan Bill Shows Why the Notwithstanding Clause Exists.” The Hill Times.

Snow, Dave. 2023. “The CBC prioritizes allyship over objectivity in Saskatchewan parental consent coverage: An empirical analysis.” The Hub.

Snow, Dave. 2022. “Pre-emptive’ use of the notwithstanding clause is nothing new.” The Hub.

Snow, Dave. 2019. “Can Parliament get Assisted Reproduction Policy Right?” Policy Options.

Snow, Dave. 2015. “Manufacturing Consensus on Commercial Surrogacy in Canada.” Impact Ethics.

Snow, Dave. 2014. “Why Create Policy for Assisted Reproductive Technology?” IPAC Impact.

Snow, Dave. 2014. “A Nudge Too Far.” Impact Ethics.

Snow, Dave. 2010. “Scaling Back the Federal Criminal Law Power: Justice Cromwell Splits the Difference in Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act.” The Court.

Snow, Dave. 2008. “R. v. D.B. – Protecting Youth Rights or Tinkering with Compromise?” The Court.