About the Author

• Author: Kent Roach
• Profession: Faculty of Law and Centre of Criminology. University of Toronto
• Pages: 505-505

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kent Roach is a Professor of Law and Criminology at the University

of Toronto. He formerly served as Law Clerk to Madam Justice Bertha

Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada. He has been the editor-in-

chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly since 1998 and is a co-editor (with

Patrick Healy and Gary Trotter) of Cases and Materials on Criminal Law

and Procedure, 9th ed. (2004). He has written extensively on criminal

justice and anti-terrorism law in both Canada and abroad, including a

chapter on the criminal process in the Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies

(2003). He is the author of Constitutional Remedies in Canada (199 4),

which was awarded the 1997 Walter Owen Book Prize as the best legal

text in Canada, and (with Robert J. Sharpe) of Brian Dickson: A Judge’s

Journey (2003), which was awarded the 2004 Defoe Prize for best con-

tribution to the understanding of Canada. Other books include Due

Process and Victims’ Rights: The New Law and Politics of Criminal Justice

in Canada (1999) and The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism or

Democratic Dialogue(2001), which were both short-listed for the Don-

ner Prize for best public policy book, and September 11: Consequences for

Canada (2003). Professor Roach has appeared as counsel for Aboriginal

Legal Services of Toronto and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association

in cases in the Supreme Court of Canada, including Stillman, Williams,

Gladue, and Latimer. He also acted as counsel for the Association in Aid

of the Wrongfully Convicted in the systemic issues phase of the Kauf-

man inquiry into the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin. Professor

Roach served on the research advisory committees of both the Arar and

Ipperwash inquiries and as research director for the Goudge inquiry on

forensic pediatric pathology and the inquiry into the bombing of Air

India Flight 182.