Volume 21 Full Issue

Publishing Appeal is a team-effort and we thank the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. This volume would not be possible without the constant and continued support of the many faculty members who share their insights and experience with our Editorial Board. In particular, we would like to extend our appreciation to Ted McDorman for his steadfast support of Appeal. We also thank our student volunteers, many of whom are first-year students eager to contribute to the law school community.

Meagan Berlin wrote "Restorative Justice Practices for Aboriginal Offenders: Developing an Expectation-Led Definition for Reform" in the second year of her JD program. Meagan would like to thank Professor Hugo Choquette for his assistance and research guidance. She wishes to thank various staff of the Edmonton Institution for Women for their informative contributions and to the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre at Queen’s University for facilitating various informative conversations.

Jennifer Cos is a 2016 JD candidate at the University of Calgary. She will begin her articles with Kelly Santini LLP in Ottawa in July 2016. She wrote "Finding a Place for Glaciers within Environmental Law: An analysis of ambiguous legislation and impractical common law" for her Water Law Course and would like to thank Professor Olszynski for his help and guidance while writing it.

Justin G. Fisch wrote "Tidal Energy Law in Canada: Hindering an Untapped Potential for Internal Primacy". He has graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Law with dual degrees in common and civil law (B.C.L./LL.B.) in the fall of 2015, having previously earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude from the University of Florida in Geography, Sustainability Studies and Political Science. An initial version of this paper was prepared for a course in Energy Law & Climate Change, offered during the spring of 2015 in Montreal, Quebec. The author owes thanks to instructors Émilie Bundock and Anne Drost for the excellent class, which provided inspiration for the research herein.

Agathon Fric wrote "Reasonableness as Proportionality: Towards a Better Constructive Interpretation of the Law on Searching Computers in Canada". He is a graduate of Dalhousie University's Schulich School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Harts (Honours) in Political Science from Carleton University. He is currently articling as a student at law with the  Court of the Queen's Bench of Alberta. Special thanks go to Professor Sheila Wildeman, without whose feedback and guidance this article would not have been written.

Melissa Ku wrote "Walking the Tightrope Between National Security and Freedom of Expression: A Constitutional Analysis of the New Advocating and Promoting Terrorism Offence". She is a third year JD candidate at the University of Victoria. This paper was originally submitted as an independent research project for the Advanced Legal Research and Writing class with Professor Tim Richards. Melissa would like to thank Kathy and Alex Ku, Eunice Choi, and Melissa Wong for their unwavering support, and for always agreeing to proofread her papers. Special thanks to the editors of Appeal for their invaluable help during the revision process.

Duncan Melville wrote "Revisting Civility After Groia". Duncan, a CFA is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. He wishes to thank Professor Anita Anand for her support on this paper, and encouragement to work on getting it published. He is also grateful to the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law for awarding an abridged version of this paper the Nathan Strauss Q.C. Essay Prize in Legal Ethics.

José (Bill) Olaguera wrote "33 Years Later: Revisiting section 33 in the context of the newly constitutionalized right to strike. He is a third year J.D. candidate at the University of Victoria. He will be articling at McMillan LLP in Vancouver. He would like to thank Timothy Richards, Kathryn Chan and Hamar Foster, QC of the UVic Faculty of Law and Tim Pritchard at BLG for their guidance on this topic. He is also grateful to his wife Josephine and to the APPEAL editorial team for helping bring this paper to publication.

Iryna Ponomarenko wrote "Tipping the Scales in the Reasonableness-Proportionality Debate in Canadian Administrative Law". She is a PhD student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia and a Sessional Lecturer at the Simon Fraser University School of Criminology. Iryna wishes to thank her doctoral supervisor, Professor Joel Bakan, for his continued encouragement, guidance, and support.