Dudley Laws (May 7, 1934 – March 24, 2011) was a Canadian civil rights activist and executive director of the Black Action Defence Committee. Laws was born in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica, to parents Ezekiel and Agatha Laws, and was a brother to six other siblings. In 1988, he founded the Black Action Defence Committee following the police shooting of . In later years, Laws maintained a better relationship with Toronto Police and was friends with two former Deputy Chiefs ( and Peter Sloly). Laws died in Toronto of kidney disease on March 24, 2011, and interred at Glenview Memorial Gardens.