Adding Roles and Permissions to Laravel's ACL [Laracasts]
September 13 2015, 7:26pm
This video tutorial goes over [one way] you can add the ability to give user's roles and specify which permissions those roles have. You would have to build upon this further to include additional features such as role inheritance or user-specific permissions (overrides).
https://laracasts.com/series/whats-new-in-laravel-5-1/episodes/16