KENT ROACH B.A., LL.B., LL.M., F.R.S.C. Born: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Address: University of Toronto 78 Queens Park Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C5 Phone: (416) 946-5645 Fax: (416) 978-2648 e-mail: [email protected] Employment: 2006- Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy, University of Toronto 1999- Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (status cross appointments in criminology and political science) 1998-1999 Dean and Professor, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan 1994-98 Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (with tenure) (status cross appointment in criminology) 1989-1994 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (status cross appointment in criminology) 1988-89 Law Clerk for Madam Justice Bertha Wilson, Supreme Court of Canada Education: 1988 Master of Laws, Yale Law School with honours in majority of courses 1987 Bachelor of Laws, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, with honours and second in class 1984 Bachelor of Arts, political science and history Victoria College, University of Toronto with high distinction and the Governor General’s Gold Medal Kent William Roach Grants and Awards: 2013 Awarded Trudeau Fellowship (one of four) in recognition of career contribution of international pre-eminence in academic and creative professional excellence 2012 Awarded Mundell Medal for contributions to legal writing 2011 Appointed (honourary) Professor, University of New South Wales 2010 Awarded British Academy Short Term Visiting Fellowship, University of Warwick Awarded Lexpert Platinum Award for best contribution to pro-bono legal services by an academic 2008 Awarded Alan Mewett award for excellence in teaching by graduating students at the Faculty of Law 2006 Appointed Editorial Board, National Journal of Constitutional Law 2004 Awarded with Robert J. Sharpe the J.W. Dafoe Prize for the book that makes the best contribution to the understanding of Canada 2003 Appointed Editorial Board, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies Awarded (with Gary Trotter) a major research grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to conduct research on the causes and remedies of wrongful convictions 2002 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences 2001 Short listed for the Donner Prize for best book on Public Policy published in 2001 Awarded grant from the Foundation for Legal Research 2000 Short listed for the Donner Prize for best book on Public Policy published in 1999 1999 Awarded grant from the Wright Foundation for Legal Research 1997 Awarded the Walter Owen Book Prize for the best law book published in English in 1994 or 1995 Page 2 of 52 Kent William Roach 1997 Awarded grant from the Foundation for Legal Research Awarded grant from the Wright Foundation for Legal Research 1993 Awarded grant from the Foundation for Legal Research 1991 Awarded major research grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (with M.L. Friedland and Michael Code) to conduct a comparative study of the criminal justice systems in Niagara Falls, Ontario and New York 1989-1990 Awarded Connaught New Staff Grant, University of Toronto Awarded Research Board General Grant 1987-1988 Awarded Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1987 The Class of 1987 Prize for ranking second among the graduating class The Dean Cecil Wright Key for participation in extra-curricular work of an academic nature Professional Activities 2013 Appointed to Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on the Future of Canadian Policing International Expert sponsored by United Nations Development to advise Tunisian Constituent Assembly on the third draft of the Constitution, Tunis, Tunisia, May. International Expert appointed by Idea International to advise Tunisian Constituent Assembly on Security Sector Reform in the second draft Constitution, Tunis, Tunisia, February. Member of Consensus Chair chaired by Hon. Ian Binnie on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the Legal System, Alberta Health Economics Conference, Edmonton, September, 2013 Co Chair (with Mayo Moran) of National Conference and Workshop on Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement, University of Toronto. Counsel (pro bono) for the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights in Tajuajawa v. Canada and Ontario, on the availability of remedies for violations of ss.7 and 15 of the Charter in relation to housing rights Page 3 of 52 Kent William Roach 2012- Appointed General Reporter on Counter-Terrorism for the XIX International Congress on Comparative Law to be held in Vienna, 2004 Special Advisor, Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Indian Residential Schools with lead responsibilities for report on the legacy of the schools 2012 Expert report on military police independence for the Military Police Complaints Commission Lead counsel (pro bono) for British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in R. v. Khawaja in the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of Canada’s definition of terrorism. Co-counsel (pro bono) for Asper Centre on Constitutional Rights in R. v. Kokopenace in the Ontario Court of Appeal on s.15 of the Charter and jury selection involving Aboriginal people in Ontario’s north. Lead counsel (pro bono) for Asper Centre on Constitutional Rights in A.G. Canada v. Downtown Eastside Sex Workers in the Supreme Court of Canada concerning public interest standing Visiting British Academic Fellow, University of Warwick Visiting and Conjoint Professor, University of New South Wales 2011 Lead counsel (pro bono) for British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in R. v.Ladue in the Supreme Court of Canada concerning the sentencing of Aboriginal offenders and decision joined with R. v. Ipeelee Witness before Senate Special Committee on Anti-Terrorism Law Expert submission on police military independence to Parliamentary committees on behalf of the Military Police Complaints Commission Visiting British Academy Fellow, University of Warwick Participant, High Level Policy Seminar on European and United States Counter- Terrorism Policies, the Rule of Law and Human Rights, European University Institute, Florence. Page 4 of 52 Kent William Roach 2010 Qualified as expert witness in Intelligence and Evidence in France v. Diab, Ontario Superior Court of Justice Qualified as expert witness in Aboriginal people and criminal justice and effects of mandatory minimum sentences in R. v. Barnhart in Ontario Court of Justice Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore Instructor, National Judicial Institute course on wrongful convictions Peter Allan Memorial Lecture, University of Hong Kong 2009 Member of a Task Force on Terrorism, Democracy and the Law sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Comparative Law, the Israel Democracy Institute and the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Foreign Scholars. 2009 Visiting Professor, Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London, England Conference Co Chair Taking Remedies Seriously Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Annual Conference Ottawa Country Reporter for Canada “Courts as Positive Legislators” XVIII International Congress of Comparative Law Washington D.C. 2010 Lead counsel (pro bono) for the British Columbia Civil Liberties and Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights in Ward v. British Columbia in the Supreme Court of Canada involving the availability of damages under s.24(1) of the Charter Lead counsel (pro bono) for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in Karas v. Canada concerning the constitutionality of extradition to Thailand without assurances that the death penalty would not be applied (appeal abandoned) Co- counsel (pro bono) for the Criminal Lawyers Association and Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights in R. v. Conway in the Supreme Court of Canada concerning the remedial powers of Mental Health Review Boards Instructor National Judicial Institute Course on Wrongful Convictions Member Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted (AIDWYC) case selection committee Page 5 of 52 Kent William Roach Assisted (pro bono) in preparation of factum in R v. Jack White in the Supreme Court of Canada in association with AIDWYC 2008 Lead counsel (pro bono) for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in Ward v. British Columbia in the British Columbia Court of Appeal involving availability of damages as a remedy under s.24(1) of the Charter. Board member of British Columbia Civil Liberties Association 2007 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Legal Expert Group on the Implementation of the Penal Provisions on Nuclear Terrorism Contained in the Universal Legal Framework Against Terrorism 2007-2008 Research Director for the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology. 2006-2009 Research Director –Legal Studies, Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Air India Flight 182. 2006 Special Lecturer of a course of Comparative Anti-Terrorism Law. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Keynote speaker Association for Victim Assistance Annual Conference Prepared a Report on the use of prosecutorial stays and means to determine and declare wrongful convictions published as an appendix in Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Aspects of the Trial and Conviction of James Driskell 2005 27th Annual Viscount Bennett Lecture, University of New Brunswick “Must we Trade Rights for Security?” Keynote Speaker, Associations Active in Criminal Justice/Department of Justice Annual Conference