About the Authors

• Author: Robert J. Sharpe, Kent Roach
• Pages: 449-450

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Robert Sharpe was formerly a professor at the Faculty of Law, Univer-

sity of Toronto, where he wrote and taught in the areas of constitutional

law, remedies, civil procedure, and crim inal law. From 1990 to 1995 he

served as De an of the Faculty. He has appeared as counsel in a number

of Charte r cases in courts at all levels, including the Supreme Court of

Canada. From 1988 to 1990, he ser ved as the Supreme Court’s Executive

Legal Off‌icer. Robert Sharpe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of

Canada in 1991. He was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice (Gen-

eral Division) in 1995 and was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal

in 199 9. He was elect ed a Fellow o f the Roya l Society of Canad a in 1991,

awarded the Ontario Bar Association Distinguished Service Award in

2005, elected a Senior Fellow of Mas sey College in 2006, and received

the Mundell Medal for D istinguished Contribution to Law and Letters

in 2008. Justice Sharpe has published many scholarly articles and is the

author of several award-winning book s on law and legal history.

Kent Roach is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He for-

merly served as Law Clerk to M adam Justice Bertha Wilson of the Su-

preme Court of Canada. He has been the editor-in-chief of the Criminal

Law Quarterly since 1998 and has written extensively on constitutional

law, crim inal justice, and anti-terrorism law in both Canada and abroad,

including a chapter on the crimin al process in the Oxford Handbook of

Legal Studies (2003). He is the author of Constitutional Remedies in Can-

ada (1994), which was awarded the 1997 Walter Owen Book Prize as

the best legal text in Canada, and (with Robert J. Sharpe) of Brian Dick-

son: A Judge’s Journey (2003), which was awarded t he 2004 Defoe Prize

for best contribution to the underst anding of Canad a. Other books in-

clude Due Process and Victims’ Rights: The New Law and Politics of Crim-