Areas of Expertise
Articling Focus
- Aboriginal & Treaty Rights
- First Nations Consultation, Negotiation & Accommodation
- Environmental Law
- Natural Resource Law
- Administrative Law & Judicial Review
Education
- JD/JID, University of Victoria, 2024
- MSc, University of British Columbia, 2009
- BSc (Hons), University of Victoria, 2002
Awards
- Canadian Judicial Indigenous Law Scholar Award, 2020
- Post-Graduate Scholarship – Master’s (PGS M), Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2005 – 2007
- Dean’s List, UVic Faculty of Science, 2001 – 2002
Interview on CBC As It Happens about BC Court of Appeal decision on private medical records, April 2023 (at 47:30)
With a concentration in environmental law and sustainability, I am sharing my articles with the University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre (ELC) and Ratcliff LLP.
Under the professional reliance model for decision-making in BC’s natural resource sector, I have been a qualified environmental professional (QEP) practicing as a registered professional biologist. Much of the work led me to directly support communities with my expertise in aquatic ecology, modelling, environmental planning, and adaptive management.
I grew up near Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi ‘it in ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa, the ancestral homelands of Ktunaxa Nation (BC’s Kootenay region). My settler ancestors on my father’s side came from England to Qukin ʔamakʔis (the Elk Valley) and from Ukraine on my mother’s side to Yaqan Nukiy (the Creston Valley).
Curran DL, B Kurke, I Smart, CE Wilkinson, and M Williams. 2024. Fraser River Protection: An Initial Assessment of the Legal Failure for Cumulative Impacts. Environmental Law Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. Available online: https://elc.uvic.ca/publications/fraser-river-protection/.
Kehoe, L, J Lund, L Califour, Y Asadian, E Balke, S Boyd, D Carlson, J Casey, B Connors, N Cryer, M Drever, S Hinch, C Levings, M MacDuffee, H McGregor, J Richardson, D Scott, D Stewart, R Vennesland, CE Wilkinson, P Zevitt, J Baum, and T Martin. 2020. Conservation in heavily urbanized biodiverse regions requires urgent management action and attention to governance. Conservation Science and Practice 3(2) e300. Available online:
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.300
Wilkinson, CE 2009. Sportfish population dynamics in an intensively managed watershed. Master thesis completed in the Department of Zoology, UBC Fisheries Centre, Vancouver, BC. Available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0067294
Wilkinson, CE, MD Hocking, and TE Reimchen. 2005. Uptake of salmon-derived nitrogen by mosses and liverworts in coastal British Columbia, Oikos 108:1. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13277.x
Wilkinson, CE. 2002. The role of bryophytes in the transfer of marine nutrients from Pacific salmon into old-growth forests of coastal British Columbia. Honour thesis completed in the University of Victoria Department of Biology, Victoria, BC.
Awards
- Canadian Judicial Indigenous Law Scholar Award, 2020
- Post-Graduate Scholarship – Master’s (PGS M), Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2005 – 2007
- Dean’s List, UVic Faculty of Science, 2001 – 2002
- Registered Professional Biologist (RPBio #2359), College of Applied Biologists, 2012 – 2024 (on leave)
- Co-founder and Director of Grants, Rainbow Foundation of Hope, 2014 – 2025
Education
- JD/JID, University of Victoria, 2024
- MSc, University of British Columbia, 2009
- BSc (Hons), University of Victoria, 2002
I learned about the work of Ratcliff in my first year of law school. Their approach to helping Indigenous Nations address issues inspired me and revealed a path to bridge my expertise in a supportive way.
