About the author

• Author: Kent Roach
• Profession: Faculty of Law and Centre of Criminology.University of Toronto
• Pages: 577-578

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kent Roach is a professor of law and the Prich ard-Wilson Chair of Law

and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is a

graduate of the University of Toronto and of Yale University, and a for-

mer law clerk to Justice Bertha Wi lson of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Professor Roach has been editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly

since 1998. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Can-

ada and in 2013 he was one of four academics awarded a Pierre Elliott

Trudeau Fellowship. He is the author of twelve books, including Con-

stitutional Remedies in Canada (winner of the Walter Owen Prize); Due

Process and Victims’ Rights (shortlisted for the Donner Prize); The Su-

preme Court on Trial (shortlisted for the Donner Prize); Brian Dickson:

A Judge’s Journey (winner of the Dafoe Prize; co-authored with Robert

J. Sharpe); and The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism (winner

of the David Mundell Medal). He is the co-editor of several collections of

essays and published casebooks, including most recently Comparative

Counter-Terrorism Law, which arose from his role as General Repor-

ter on Counter-Terrorism Law for the XIX International Congress on

Comparative Law held in 2014. With Justice Robert Sharpe, he is the

co-author of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms volume in Irwin Law’s

Essentials of Canadian Law series. False Security: The Radicalization

of Canada’s Terror Law, co-authored with Craig Forcese, was pub-

lished by Irwin Law in 2015. He has also written over 200 articles and

chapters published in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy,

Kenya, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the