About the Author

• Author: Kent Roach
• Pages: 267-267

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About the Author

   is a professor of law at the University of Toronto. He formerly

served as law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court and as dir-

ector of research to numerous inquiries and reviews, including the Commis-

sion of Inquiry into the Bombing of Air India Flight  and the Independent

Review of the Toronto Police’s Missing Persons Investigations that resulted

in the Missing and Missed Report () by Justice Gloria Epstein. He also

served on the research advisory committees for the Arar and Ipperwash

inquiries, which both involved a review of police conduct. He wrote expert

reports on pol ice-government relat ions for Ontario’s Ipperwa sh Inquir y and

Quebec’s Inquiry into the Protection of Journalist Sources. He has served

on the expert panels convened by the Canadian Council of Academies that

produced Policing in the st Century: New Policing for New Challenges

() and Towards Peace, Harmony and Well-Being: Policing in Indigenous

Communities (). He was volume lead for the Truth and Reconciliation

Commission’s volume ve on the legacy of residential schools for Indigenous

people. Acting pro bono, he has represented Aboriginal Legal Services in a

number of Supreme Court cases, including R v Gladue on sentencin g and Rv

Golden on police powers. He is the author with Craig Forcese of False Sec-

urity: e Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism, which won the 

Canadian Law and Society book prize . His book Canadian Justice Indigenous

Injustice: e Gerald Stanley and Colton Boushie Case was shor t-listed for

 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize and his Due Process and Victims’ Rights and

e Supreme Court on Trial were both shortlisted for the Donner Prize. He

was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in , appointed as a

member of the Order of Canada in , and awarded the Molson Prize for

contributions to the social sciences and humanities in .