Hilary Evans Cameron
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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥� Research Council, the Law Foundation of Ontario and the British Academy. She was the SSHRC鈥檚 2017 Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research; the recipient of the Dean鈥檚 Scholarly Research and Creativity Award (2023); and was named 鈥楶rofessor of the Year鈥� by Lincoln Alexander鈥檚 inaugural graduating class (2023).
Book
Hilary Evans Cameron, Refugee Law鈥檚 Fact-Finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Book Chapters
Hilary Evans Cameron, 鈥淚ndigenous Oral History in Canadian Courts: The Law of Fact-finding and the Wrong Mistake,鈥� in Joe Tomlinson & Anne Carter, eds., Facts in Public Law Adjudication (Hart Publishing, 2023) 225-243
Hilary Evans Cameron & Talia Joundi, 鈥淧rocedures for claiming asylum within Canada, acceptance and rejection,鈥� in Ervis Martani & Denise Helly, eds., Asylum and Resettlement in Canada: Historical development, successes, challenges and lessons (Genova University Press, 2022) 101-117
Refereed Articles
Hilary Evans Cameron, 鈥淩isk and the Reasonable Refugee: Exploring a Key Credibility Inference in Canadian Refugee Status Rejections,鈥� (2023) 35 International Journal of Refugee Law 10, 10-36
Hilary Evans Cameron, 鈥淪in of Omission: Exploring a Key Credibility Inference in Canadian Refugee Status Rejections鈥� (2023) 60 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 1, 127-174
Jane Herlihy, Hilary Evans Cameron & Stuart Turner, 鈥淧sychological Evidence in Refugee Status Determination鈥� (2023) Journal of Refugee Studies, 1-20
Sean Rehaag & Hilary Evans Cameron, 鈥淢aking Space for Online Research Experiments in Law School Courses鈥� (2022) Canadian Legal Education Annual Review 113-131
Hilary Evans Cameron, Avi Goldfarb & Leah Morris, 鈥淎rtificial intelligence for a reduction of false denials in refugee claims鈥� (2020) 35 Journal of Refugee Studies 493-510
Hilary Evans Cameron, 鈥淭he failures of a 鈥榤odel鈥� system: RSD in Canada鈥� (2020) 65 Forced Migration Review 8-10
Sean Rehaag and Hilary Evans Cameron, 鈥淓xperimenting with Credibility in Refugee Adjudication: Gaydar鈥� (2020) 9 Canadian Journal of Human Rights 1-34
鈥淭he analysis of nonverbal communication: The dangers of pseudoscience in security and justice contexts鈥� (2020) 30 Anuario de Psicolog铆a Jur铆dica 1, with Vincent Denault and others (Denault first author)
鈥淓xperimenting with Credibility in Refugee Adjudication: Gaydar鈥� (2020) Canadian Journal of Human Rights, with Sean Rehaag, second author.
鈥淭he Battle for the Wrong Mistake: Error Preference and Risk Salience in Canadian Refugee Status Decision-making鈥� (2019) 42 Dalhousie Law Journal 1
鈥淭he E-Team Project: A Teamwork Approach to Clinical Legal Education鈥� (2014) 23 Journal of Law and Social Policy 30-61
鈥淪ubstantial Deference and Tribunal Expertise Post-Dunsmuir: A New Approach to Reasonableness Review鈥� (2014) 27 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice 1
鈥淯nder the IRPA and after Irving: The Right to Standing before the Federal Court for Canadian Children Seeking to Challenge Their Parents鈥� Deportations鈥� (2013) 46 UBC Law Review 205 (first author; second author Josh Stark)
鈥淩efugee Status Determination and the Limits of Memory鈥� (2010) 22 International Journal of Refugee Law 469
鈥淩isk Theory and 鈥楽ubjective Fear鈥�: The Role of Risk Perception, Assessment and Management in Refugee Status Determinations鈥� (2008) 20 International Journal of Refugee Law 567
Named Professor of the Year' by Lincoln Alexander Law鈥檚 inaugural graduating class, 2023
Dean's Scholarly Research and Creativity Award, 2023
Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2017
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| SJD (Doctor of Juridical Science) | University of Toronto | 2016 |
| LLB (Bachelor of Laws) | Osgoode Hall Law School | 2001 |
| BA Hons. (Bachelor of Arts, Honours) | McGill University | 1998 |