Kent Roach

Kent Roach is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He is a former law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was awarded the Molson Prize for the social sciences and humanities in 2017. His books include Constitutional Remedies in Canada (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2013), now in its third edition and the winner of the Walter Owen Prize, and Remedies for Human Rights Violations: A Two-Track Approach to Supra-national and National Law published by Cambridge University Press in 2021 and runner up for the Canadian Council on International Law book prize for 2020–21. He has won awards for his pro bono work and represented interveners in a number of cases about remedies including in Stillman, Dunedin Construction, Ward, Conseil Francophone, and G v Ontario.