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 ed itor-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 Pr ize); 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 (w in ne r

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

essays and published ca sebooks, including most recently Compara tive

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 L aw’s

Essentials of Canadian Law s eries. False Security: The Radicalization

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

lished by Irwin L aw in 2015. He has also written over 200 art icles and

chapters published in Australi a, China, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy,

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