Summary
Kent Roach CM is a professor of law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is well known for his expertise and writings on criminal law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and more recently anti-terrorism law. He is a graduate of the university and served as a law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada.[1] Roach is a recipient of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2013).[2] He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.[3]
Kent Roach | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Title | Professor & Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto (BA, LLB) Yale Law School (LLM) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Canadian law |
| Sub-discipline | Constitutional law, Criminal law, Anti-terrorism law |
| Website | http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/kent-roach |
Career edit
Roach studied political science as an undergraduate student in the 1980s at the University of Toronto. He studied under Peter H. Russell, the research director on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP, and completed his undergraduate thesis in 1984 on the then-newly created Canadian Security Intelligence Service.[4]
Roach served as director of research for the public inquiry investigating Air India Flight 182 and was also on the research advisory committee for the inquiry on Maher Arar's case.[4]
Professor Roach's current research involves the comparative study of miscarriages of justice,[5] comparative judicial review and comparative anti-terrorism law and policy.[6] He is the editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly, and member of the advisory committee for both the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar[7] and the Ipperwash Inquiry into the killing of Dudley George.[8]
His book Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change was a nominee for the 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.[9]
Select publications edit
- Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colton Boushie Case. McGill University Press, 2019
- Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials Emond Montgomery Publications, 11th ed, 2015
- Criminal Law Irwin Law, 3rd ed, 2004
- Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey University of Toronto Press, 2003 (with Robert Sharpe)
- The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism or Democratic Dialogue, Toronto, Irwin Law, 2001
References edit
- ^ "Bertha Wilson, 83: First female Supreme Court justice". Toronto Star. May 1, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ "Professor Kent Roach awarded a Trudeau Fellowship". University of Toronto. October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
- ^ "Order of Canada Appointments". The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
- ^ a b Geddes, John (March 3, 2015). "Meet the professors behind the swift assault on C-51". Maclean's. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
- ^ "Punishment urged for those responsible for wrongful convictions". Toronto Star. March 7, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ "Politics hurting terrorism fight". Canada.com. September 10, 2007. Archived from the original on November 9, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ "Legal victory may ease conviction: gov't lawyer". CTV.ca. October 28, 2006. Retrieved July 30, 2010.[dead link]
- ^ "The Ipperwash Inquiry - The Research Advisory Committee". Attorney General of Ontario. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Finalists named for 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy". Quill & Quire, September 28, 2022.
External links edit
- Kent Roach - University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
- Kent Roach at McGill discussing the Royal Prerogative and Omar Khadr