Hilary Evans Cameron

Hilary Evans Cameron is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University. A former litigator who represented refugee claimants for a decade, she holds a doctorate in refugee law from the University of Toronto and teaches in the areas of evidence and administrative law. 

Credibility assessment in the refugee law context is a primary focus of her research. Her work, which sits at the intersection of law and psychology, investigates the inferences that underlie findings of deception in cases of refugee status rejection, and her work on the logics of legal reasoning explores the principles that structure the drawing of conclusions from evidence in legal adjudication. She is the author of numerous publications, including Refugee Law’s Fact-finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake (2018, Cambridge), a book about the law of fact-finding in refugee status decision-making.