Kent Roach

Kent Roach
CM
Nationality Canadian
Title Professor & Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy
Website www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/kent-roach
Academic background
Alma mater University of Toronto (B.A and LL.B.)
Yale Law School (LL.M.)
Academic work
Discipline Canadian law
Sub discipline Constitutional law, Criminal law, Anti-terrorism law

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 former law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada.[1] Roach is the recipient of the prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2013)[2] He appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.[3]

Career

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 has written and published extensively on various subjects, and his current research involves the comparative study of miscarriages of justice,[5] comparative judicial review and comparative anti-terrorism law and policy.[6] Some notable offices he holds include 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]

Select publications

References

  1. ↑ "Bertha Wilson, 83: First female Supreme Court justice". Toronto Star. May 1, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Professor Kent Roach awarded a Trudeau Fellowship". University of Toronto. October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Order of Canada Appointments". The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 Geddes, John (March 3, 2015). "Meet the professors behind the swift assault on C-51". Maclean's. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Punishment urged for those responsible for wrongful convictions". Toronto Star. March 7, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Politics hurting terrorism fight". Canada.com. September 10, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Legal victory may ease conviction: gov't lawyer". CTV.ca. October 28, 2006. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
  8. ↑ "The Ipperwash Inquiry - The Research Advisory Committee". Attorney General of Ontario. Retrieved July 30, 2010.

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