Hilary Evans Cameron
Associate Professor Lincoln Alexander School of Law Toronto, Ontario h.evanscameron@torontomu.ca
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Hilary Evans Cameron teaches Evidence Law, Administrative Law and Advanced Legal Research and Writing. A former litigator who represented refugee claimants for a decade, she holds adoctorate in refugee law from the University of Toronto.
Much of Prof. Evans Cameron’s research centres on ...
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Hilary Evans Cameron teaches Evidence Law, Administrative Law and Advanced Legal Research and Writing. A former litigator who represented refugee claimants for a decade, she holds adoctorate in refugee law from the University of Toronto.
Much of Prof. Evans Cameron’s research centres on fact-finding, with a focus on deception judgments in refugee status rejections. She explores questions at the intersection of law and psychology: How do decision-makers decide that a refugee claimant is lying? What inferences do they rely on to justify these conclusions? What assumptions underlie these inferences, and how well-founded are these assumptions? Her work in legal logics explores the principles that guide fact-finding in a courtroom or a hearing room: What structures constrain the drawing of factual conclusions from evidence, and what normative principles should guide the development of these structures? Beyond this, Prof. Evans Cameron has written about administrative law, pedagogy, pseudoscience, and the coming of AI to refugee hearings.
Prof. Evans Cameron is the author of many publications, including a book about the law of fact-finding in refugee status decision-making (Refugee Law’s Fact-finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake, Cambridge 2018). Her work is cited widely within the academy and by decision-makers and judges in Canada and internationally. She regularly gives lectures and training sessions to audiences around the world.
Prof. Evans Cameron is a member of the Bridging Divides research team. Her work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities’ Research Council, the Law Foundation of Ontario and the British Academy. She was the SSHRC’s 2017 Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research; the recipient of the Dean’s Scholarly Research and Creativity Award (2023); and was named ‘Professor of the Year’ by Lincoln Alexander’s inaugural graduating class (2023).
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Much of Prof. Evans Cameron’s research centres on fact-finding, with a focus on deception judgments in refugee status rejections. She explores questions at the intersection of law and psychology: How do decision-makers decide that a refugee claimant is lying? What inferences do they rely on to justify these conclusions? What assumptions underlie these inferences, and how well-founded are these assumptions? Her work in legal logics explores the principles that guide fact-finding in a courtroom or a hearing room: What structures constrain the drawing of factual conclusions from evidence, and what normative principles should guide the development of these structures? Beyond this, Prof. Evans Cameron has written about administrative law, pedagogy, pseudoscience, and the coming of AI to refugee hearings.
Prof. Evans Cameron is the author of many publications, including a book about the law of fact-finding in refugee status decision-making (Refugee Law’s Fact-finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake, Cambridge 2018). Her work is cited widely within the academy and by decision-makers and judges in Canada and internationally. She regularly gives lectures and training sessions to audiences around the world.
Prof. Evans Cameron is a member of the Bridging Divides research team. Her work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities’ Research Council, the Law Foundation of Ontario and the British Academy. She was the SSHRC’s 2017 Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research; the recipient of the Dean’s Scholarly Research and Creativity Award (2023); and was named ‘Professor of the Year’ by Lincoln Alexander’s inaugural graduating class (2023).
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