He is a graduate of the university and served as a law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada.
[3] Roach studied political science as an undergraduate student in the 1980s at the University of Toronto.
He studied under Peter H. Russell, the research director on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP, and completed his undergraduate thesis in 1984 on the then-newly created Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
[6] He is the editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly, and member of the advisory committee for both the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar[7] and the Ipperwash Inquiry into the killing of Dudley George.
[8] His book Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change was a nominee for the 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.