About the author

• Author: Kent Roach
• Pages: 663-664

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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

He formerly served as a law clerk to the late Justice Bertha Wilson. He

has been editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly since 1998. In

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

fellow academics. In 2015, he was appointed a member of the Order of

Canada. In 2017, the Canada Council awarded hi m the Molson Prize for

his career contribution s to social sciences and the humanities. He is t he

co-editor of Cases and Material s on Criminal Law and Procedure and num -

erous collections of essays, and t he author of seventeen books, including

Constitutional Remedies in Canada (winner of the 1997 Walter Owen

Book Prize); Due Process and Victims’ 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 Eect: Comparative

Counter-Terrorism (co-winner of the 2012 Mundell Medal); (with Craig

Forcese) False Security: The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism

(winner of the 2016 Canadian Law and Society book prize); and Can-

adian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie

Case (f‌inalist for the 2019 Shaughnessy Cohen prize for political writ-

ing). He is the author (with Robert J Sharpe) of the Canadian Charter

of Rights Freedoms volume in Irwin’s Essentials in Law series with a

7th edition published in 2021. His most recent books are Remedies for

Human Rights Violations, published by Cambridge University Press in