Vanessa Ntaganda(She/Her)
Associate
Vanessa practices in civil, commercial, and constitutional litigation, as well as in administrative law. After obtaining a Bachelor of Law and a Juris Doctor in North American Common Law from the University of Montréal, Vanessa articled and clerked at the Quebec Court of Appeal with the Honourable Stéphane Sansfaçon. She then worked as a judicial law clerk to the Honourable Suzanne Côté at the Supreme Court of Canada.
At IMK, Vanessa is involved in a variety of files, including several public law files, and in appellate litigation.
Additional information
- J.D., Université de Montréal, 2018
- LL.B., Université de Montréal, 2017
- Judicial Law Clerk to the Honourable Suzanne Côté, Supreme Court of Canada, 2022-2023
- Judicial Law Clerk to the Honourable Stéphane Sansfaçon, Quebec Court of Appeal, 2019-2021
- Canadian Association of Black Lawyers
- The Advocates’ Society
- Young Bar Association of Montréal
- Supreme Court of Canada Advocacy Institute, Session Coordinator for Québec (2024-current)
- Amnesty International French Canadian section, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors (2025-current)
- Young Governor, Quebec Bar Foundation (2022-current)
- Mile End Legal Clinic: volunteer (2019-2021)
- « Les pouvoirs des tribunaux », « Les greffes des tribunaux », « La répartition des pouvoirs des tribunaux, des juges et des greffiers », with Raphaël Lescop in Le Grand Collectif – Code de procédure civile – commentaires et annotations, Les Édition Yvon Blais, 2023
- The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Expression in the McLachlin Court? in D. Jutras and M. Moore (dirs.), Canada’s Chief Justice : Beverley McLachlin’s Legacy of Law and Leadership, LexisNexis (2018) 87 S.C.R.L. (2d) 211-253, co-authored with Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens and Noura Karazivan
- La magistrature : à quoi ressemble(nt) le(s) chemin(s) ? (Co-moderator): The Advocates’ Society Symposium for Women in Litigation, November 28, 2023 (Montréal)
- Judicial Virtues, Chief Justice McLachlin Symposium, co-panelist with Daniel Jutras, Noura Karazivan and Benjamin Berger at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard Faculty of Law (Vancouver, January 2019)