About the Author

• Author: Kent Roach
• Pages: 624-624

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kent Roach, CM, FRSC, is a professor of law at the Universit y of Toronto,

where he holds the Prichard-Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy.

In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canad a by his

fellow academics and in 2015 was appointed a member of the Order of

Canada. In 2013, he was awarded a Trudeau Fellowship and in 2017

the Canada Council awarded him the Molson Pri ze for his contribu-

tions. He has taught criminal law since 1989 and been ed itor-in-chief

of the Criminal Law Quarterly since 1998. He is the co-editor of Cases

and Materials on Criminal Law and Procedure, numerous collections of

essays and th irteen books, including Constitutional Remedies in Cana da

(winner of the 1997 Walter Owen Book Prize); Due Process and Vic-

tims’ Rights: The New Law and Politics of Criminal Justice (shortlisted for

the 1999 Donner Prize); The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism

or Democratic Dialogue (shortlisted for the 2001 Donner Prize); (with

Robert J. Sharpe) Brian Dickson: A Judge’s Journey (winner of the 2003

Defoe Prize); The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism (co -win ner

of the 2012 Mundell Medal); and (with Craig Forcese) False Security:

The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism (winner of the 2016

Canadian L aw and Society book prize). Professor Roach has served

as research di rector of the Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing

of Air India and the Goudge Inquir y into Forensic Pathology and was

volume lead on the Truth and Reconciliation’s Commission volume

of the legacy of Residential Schools for Indigenous children. Acting

pro bono, he has represented civil liberties and Indigenous groups in

interventions before the Supreme Court, including in Golden and Ward

on strip searches; Kh awaja on terrori sm; Latim er on mandatory senten-

cing; Gladue, Ipeelee, and Anderson on sentencing Indigenous offenders;

and Sauve on pri soner voting rights.