Selected Publications

Edited Volumes
2019. What’s Trending in Canadian Politics? Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere. Edited by Mireille Lalancette, Vincent Raynauld and Erin Crandall. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Journal Articles
Lawlor, Andrea, and Erin Crandall. 2023. "The Canadian Charter’s Notwithstanding Clause as an Institutionalized Mechanism of Court Curbing." American Review of Canadian Studies 53(1): 1-21.

Crandall, Erin, and Andrea Lawlor. 2022. "Public Support for Canadian Courts: Understanding the Roles of Institutional Trust and Partisanship." Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société 37(1): 91-112. [Open Access]

Crandall, Erin. 2022. “A Reflection of Canadian Society? An Analysis of Federal Appointments to Provincial Superior Courts by the Liberal Government of Justin Trudeau.” Dalhousie Law Journal 45(2): 359-384. [Open Access]

Crandall, Erin. 2022. “Amendment by Stealth of Provincial Constitutions in Canada.” University of Manitoba Law Journal 45(1): 173-197. [Open Access]

Lawlor, Andrea, and Erin Crandall. 2022. "Public opinion toward non-party campaign spending in the UK and Canada." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 32(2): 449-468. 

Richez, Emmanuelle, and Erin Crandall. 2018. “Judicial Discretion as Political Choice: The Supreme Court of Canada’s Costs Awarding Power.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 51(4): 929-47.

Lawlor, Andrea, and Erin Crandall. 2018. “Policy versus Practice: Third Party Behaviour in Canadian Elections.” Canadian Public Administration 61(2): 246-65.

Lawlor, Andrea, and Erin Crandall. 2018. "Comparing Third Party Policy Frameworks: Regulating Third Party Electoral Finance in Canada and the United Kingdom." Public Policy and Administration 33(3): 332-53.

Crandall, Erin, and Andrea Lawlor. 2017. "The Politics of Judicial Appointment: Do Party Connections Impede the Appointment of Women to Canada’s Federally Appointed Courts?" Canadian Journal of Political Science 50(3): 823-47.

Lawlor, Andrea, and Erin Crandall. 2015. “Questioning Judges with a Questionable Process: An Analysis of Committee Appearances by Canadian Supreme Court Candidates.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 48(4): 863-83.

Crandall, Erin. 2015. “Defeat and Ambiguity: The Pursuit of Judicial Selection Reform for the Supreme Court of Canada.” Queen’s Law Journal 41(1): 73-104.

Crandall, Erin, and Andrea Lawlor. 2015. “Courting Controversy: Evaluating Canadian Parliamentary Review of Supreme Court Candidates.” Canadian Parliamentary Review 38(4): 35-43.

Crandall, Erin. 2014.“Does the System of Judicial Appointment Matter? Exploring Women’s Representation on Ontario’s Courts.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 26(2): 185-205.

Crandall, Erin, and Andrea Lawlor. 2014. “Third Party Election Spending in Canada and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis.” Election Law Journal 13(4): 476-92.

Lawlor, Andrea and Erin Crandall. 2013. “Committee Performance in the Senate of Canada: Some Sobering Analysis for the Chamber of ‘Sober Second Thought’.” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 51(4): 549-68.

Lawlor, Andrea, and Erin Crandall. 2011. “Understanding Third Party Advertising: An Analysis of the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Canadian Elections.” Canadian Public Administration 54(4): 509-29.

Chapters
2021. “Freedom of Expression in an Age of Fake News: Regulatory Considerations and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms” in Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Freedom of Expression in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 76-90. With Andrea Lawlor.

2020. “Party Fundraisers” in Alex Marland and Thierry Giasson, eds., Inside the Campaign: Managing Elections in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press), 111-122. With Michael Roy.

2019. “Competing Diversities: Representing ‘Canada’ on the Supreme Court” in Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant and Kyle Hanniman, eds., Canada: The State of the Federation 2017, Canada at 150: Federalism and Democratic Renewal (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press). With Robert Schertzer.

2019. “Covering the Court: News Media Framing of Physician-Assisted Dying from Rodriguez to Carter” in Mireille Lalancette, Vincent Raynauld, and Erin Crandall, eds., What’s Trending In Canadian Politics? Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere (Vancouver: UBC Press), 237-56. With Kate Puddister and Mark Daku. 

2018. “Third Party Policy and Electoral Participation after Harper v. Canada: A Triumph of Egalitarianism?” in Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 210-29. With Andrea Lawlor.

2018. “Supreme Court Judges: Traditional Elite Roles in a Digital Age” in Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, and Andrea Lawlor, eds., Political Elites in Canada: Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times (Vancouver: UBC Press), 128-48.

2016. “DIY 101: The Constitutional Entrenchment of the Supreme Court of Canada” in Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Constitutional Amendment in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 211-27.

2015. “Intergovernmental Relations and the Supreme Court of Canada: The Changing Place of the Provinces in Judicial Selection Reform,” in Nadia Verrelli, ed., The Democratic Dilemma: Reforming Canada's Supreme Court (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press), 71-85.