Kent Roach
{{Short description|Canadian legal scholar}}
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Yale Law School (LLM)
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Kent Roach {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} is a professor of law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is well known for his expertise and writings on criminal law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and more recently anti-terrorism law. He is a graduate of the university and served as a law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada.{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/05/01/bertha_wilson_83_first_female_supreme_court_justice.html|title=Bertha Wilson, 83: First female Supreme Court justice|date=May 1, 2007|work=Toronto Star|accessdate=July 30, 2010}} Roach is a recipient of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2013).{{cite news|url=http://politics.utoronto.ca/2013/10/22/professor-kent-roach-awarded-a-trudeau-fellowship/|title=Professor Kent Roach awarded a Trudeau Fellowship|date=October 22, 2013|work=University of Toronto|accessdate=October 30, 2013}} He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.{{cite web|title=Order of Canada Appointments|url=http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=16283&lan=eng|website=The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston|publisher=Governor General of Canada|accessdate=31 December 2015}}
Career
Roach studied political science as an undergraduate student in the 1980s at the University of Toronto. He studied under Peter H. Russell, the research director on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP, and completed his undergraduate thesis in 1984 on the then-newly created Canadian Security Intelligence Service.{{cite news | url=http://www.macleans.ca/authors/john-geddes/two-profs-take-on-the-harpers-anti-terrorism-bill/ | title=Meet the professors behind the swift assault on C-51 | work=Maclean's | date=March 3, 2015 | accessdate=September 26, 2016 | author=Geddes, John}}
Roach served as director of research for the public inquiry investigating Air India Flight 182 and was also on the research advisory committee for the inquiry on Maher Arar's case.
Professor Roach's current research involves the comparative study of miscarriages of justice,{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/598450--punishment-urged-for-those-responsible-for-wrongful-convictions|title=Punishment urged for those responsible for wrongful convictions|date=March 7, 2009|work=Toronto Star|accessdate= July 30, 2010}} comparative judicial review and comparative anti-terrorism law and policy.{{cite news|url=http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=3ea93768-8238-4229-86d2-91ef5758b79e |title=Politics hurting terrorism fight |date=September 10, 2007 |publisher=Canada.com |accessdate=July 30, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109005333/http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=3ea93768-8238-4229-86d2-91ef5758b79e |archivedate=November 9, 2012 }} He is the editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly, and member of the advisory committee for both the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar{{cite news|url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061028/terror_law_061028?s_name=t&no_ads=|title=Legal victory may ease conviction: gov't lawyer|date=October 28, 2006|publisher=CTV.ca|accessdate=July 30, 2010}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} and the Ipperwash Inquiry into the killing of Dudley George.{{cite web|url=http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/ipperwash/advisory/index.html|title=The Ipperwash Inquiry - The Research Advisory Committee|publisher=Attorney General of Ontario|accessdate=July 30, 2010}}
His book Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change was a nominee for the 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.Cassandra Drudi, [https://quillandquire.com/omni/finalists-named-for-2022-balsillie-prize-for-public-policy/ "Finalists named for 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy"]. Quill & Quire, September 28, 2022.
Select publications
- Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colton Boushie Case. McGill University Press, 2019
- Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials Emond Montgomery Publications, 11th ed, 2015
- Criminal Law Irwin Law, 3rd ed, 2004
- Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey University of Toronto Press, 2003 (with Robert Sharpe)
- The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism or Democratic Dialogue, Toronto, Irwin Law, 2001
References
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External links
- [http://www.law.utoronto.ca/profile-Faculty/703/ Kent Roach - University of Toronto - Faculty of Law]
- [http://legaleaseckut.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/episode-19-feb-2011-executive-actions/ Kent Roach at McGill discussing the Royal Prerogative and Omar Khadr]
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Category:Canadian legal scholars
Category:Clerks of the Supreme Court of Canada
Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Category:University of Toronto Faculty of Law alumni
Category:Members of the Order of Canada
Category:Yale Law School alumni
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