Kent Roach

Kent W. Roach, B.A. (Toronto) 1984, LL.B. (Toronto) 1987, LL.M. (Yale) 1988, was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1992 and is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has served as a Law Clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada for Madam Justice Bertha Wilson and as the Research Director for the Ontario Law Reform Commission's project, which resulted in its "Report on Public Inquiries". He has been the editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly since 1998 and has written and lectured extensively on criminal justice, constitutional law, and anti-terrorism law in both Canada and abroad. He is the author of Constitutional Remedies in Canada (1994), Due Process and Victims' Rights: The New Law and Politics of Criminal Justice in Canada (1999), The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism or Democratic Dialogue (2001), September 11: Consequences for Canada (2003), Criminal Law, fourth edition (2008),  (with Robert J.Sharpe) Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey (2003) and The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, fourth edition (2009) (also with Robert Sharpe). He has argued constitutional cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and the Ontario Court of Appeal on behalf of various public interest groups. He also acted as counsel for the Association in Aid of the Wrongfully Convicted in the systemic issues phase of the Kaufman inquiry into the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin and served as a member of the research advisory committee to both the Arar and Ipperwash inquiries. Most recently he served as research director for the Goudge inquiry on forensic pediatric pathology and the inquiry into the bombing of Air India Flight 182.