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D-Index
30
Citations
4375
World Ranking
269
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Kent Roach is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has a research focus predominantly situated within the social sciences, with 77 publications in this area.

Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including:

  • Law
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Economics and Econometrics

The main topics Kent Roach covers in their work include:

  • Criminal Law and Evidence
  • Legal principles and applications
  • Legal Issues in South Africa
  • Ombudsman and Human Rights
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

Recent publications reflect a wide range of legal and political issues, including:

  • "Reclaiming Prima Facie Exclusionary Rules in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United States: The Importance of Compensation, Proportionality, and Non-Repetition" (2020), published in Manitoba Law Journal
  • "Counterterrorism and the challenges of terrorism from the far right" (2020), published in Common Law World Review
  • "Echoes that Build to a Cacophony: Hong Kong's New Security Law Compared to Illiberal Elements of the Security Laws of Liberal Democracies" (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Canada Has a Guilty Plea Wrongful Conviction Problem" (2023), published in The Wrongful Conviction Law Review
  • "Codification, confusion and crisis: police-government relations when responding to February 2022 protests in Ottawa and Wellington" (2025), published in Policing & Society

Frequent publication venues for Kent Roach include:

  • Manitoba Law Journal (7 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
  • Common Law World Review (1 publication)
  • The Wrongful Conviction Law Review (1 publication)
  • Policing & Society (1 publication)

Kent Roach has published a book titled Remedies for Human Rights Violations (2021) with Cambridge University Press, which has been cited 25 times.

Collaboration is evident in their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • David C. Hofmann
  • Michael Nesbitt
  • Kevin Lee
  • Hartmut Aden

Recognition for their contributions includes election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, attributed to the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism

    Kent Roach

  • The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism or Democratic Dialogue

    Kent Roach

  • Four Models of the Criminal Process

    Kent W. Roach

  • Global anti-terrorism law and policy

    Victor Vridar Ramraj;Michael Hor;Kent Roach

  • Changing punishment at the turn of the century: Restorative justice on the rise

    Kent Roach

  • September 11: Consequences for Canada

    Kent Roach

  • Due Process and Victims' Rights: The New Law and Politics of Criminal Justice

    Kent Roach

  • The security of freedom : essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill

    Ronald J Daniels;Patrick Macklem;Kent Roach

  • Constitutional, Remedial, and International Dialogues about Rights: The Canadian Experience

    Kent Roach

  • The Charter of Rights and Freedoms

    Robert J. Sharpe;Kent Roach

  • Private Enforcement of Competition Laws

    Kent Roach;Michael J. Trebilcock

  • Miscarriages of Justice in the War Against Terror

    Kent Roach;Gary Trotter

  • Wrongful Convictions: Adversarial and Inquisitorial Themes

    Kent Roach

  • Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance in Canada

    Colleen M. Flood;Kent Roach;Lorne Sossin

  • A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF THE STATE'S FORENSIC SCIENCE AND MEDICAL EVIDENCE†

    Gary Edmond;Kent Roach

  • Racial and Ethnic Profiling: Statutory Discretion, Constitutional Remedies, and Democratic Accountability

    Sujit Choudhry;Kent Roach

  • Mandatory relief and supervisory jurisdiction : when is it appropriate, just and equitable?

    Kent Roach;Geoff Budlender

  • The Relevance of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the Criminal Law from Investigation to Sentencing

    Kent Roach;Andrea Bailey

  • Did September 11 Change Everything? Struggling to Preserve Canadian Values in the Face of Terrorism

    Kent W. Roach

  • Comparative counter-terrorism law

    Kent Roach

  • Dialogic Judicial Review and its Critics

    Kent Roach

  • Gladue: The judicial and political reception of a promising decision

    Kent Roach;Jonathan Rudin

  • The eroding distinction between intelligence and evidence in terrorism investigations

    Kent Roach

  • Remedial Consensus and Dialogue Under the Charter: General Declarations and Delayed Declarations of Invalidity

    Kent Roach

  • Constitutional and Common Law Dialogues between the Supreme Court and Canadian Legislatures

    Kent Roach

  • Due Process and Victims' Rights

    Kent Roach

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Trebilcock
Michael J. Trebilcock University of Toronto
Gary Edmond
Gary Edmond University of New South Wales
Mark Tushnet
Mark Tushnet Harvard University
Julian V. Roberts
Julian V. Roberts University of Oxford

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