CONTENTS/SOMMAIRE FORUM: The Judicial Appointments Process EDITORS’ PREFACE Daniel Zacks & Tanya Butler FOREWORD: APPOINTMENT OF SECTION 96 JUDGES E. Neil McKelvey JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT, DEMOCRATIC ASPIRATIONS, AND THE CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY Lorne Sossin THE POLITICS OF REFORMING JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS Rainer Knopff CHOICES AND CONTROVERSY: JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS IN CANADA Carissima Mathen SHOULD THEY ALL JUST GET ALONG? JUDICIAI IDEOLOGY, COLLEGIALITY, AND APPOINTMENTS TO THI SUPREME COURT OF CANADA Andrew Green & Benjamin Alarie THE NEUTRALITY THESIS AND THE ROTHSTEIN HEARING Michael Plaxton DEMOCRACY, JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE, AND JUDICIAI SELECTION FOR FEDERALLY APPOINTED JUDGES lan Greene NO NEED FOR RADICAL REFORM OF THE FEDERAI JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT PROCESS Rory Leishman HOWLING AT HARPER F.C. DeCoste THE SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT PROCESS: CHRONOLOGY, CONTEXT, AND REFORM Irwin Cotler ARTICLES THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND LANDS PROTECTION ACT: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE Margaret McCallum PRESUMED INNOCENT: NAVIGATION RIGHTS AND RISK- BASED ACTIVITIES IN THE PASSAMAQUODDY BAY Neil Craik “FIRST RATE” FACT FINDING: REASONABLE INFERENCES IN CRIMINAL TRIALS: A LECTURE IN HONOUR OF IVAN C. RAND Christine Boyle