Kent Roach

Kent Roach
NationalityCanadian
TitleProfessor & Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (BA, LLB)
Yale Law School (LLM)
Academic work
DisciplineCanadian law
Sub-disciplineConstitutional law, Criminal law, Anti-terrorism law
Websitehttp://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/kent-roach

Kent Roach 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.[1] Roach is a recipient of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2013).[2] He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.[3]

  1. ^ "Bertha Wilson, 83: First female Supreme Court justice". Toronto Star. May 1, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
  2. ^ "Professor Kent Roach awarded a Trudeau Fellowship". University of Toronto. October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
  3. ^ "Order of Canada Appointments". The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 31 December 2015.