About the author

• Author: Hamish Stewart
• Pages: 417-417

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hamish Stewart is a professor of law at the University of Toronto, where

he has taught criminal law, the law of evidence, and legal theory since

1993. Before attending law school, he studied economics, receiving his

BA from the University of Toronto in 1983 and his PhD from Harvard

University in 1989. He received his LLB from the University of Toronto

in 1992, clerked at the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992–93, and was

called to the Ontario Bar in 1998. He is the author of the loose-leaf

service Sexual Offences in Canadian Law (2004) and of the Evidence title

of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada (2010; reissues, 2014 and 2018). He is the

general editor of Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 4th ed (2016) and the

associate editor of the Canadian Criminal Cases. He has published more

than eighty scholarly papers in criminal law, evidence, legal theory, and

economics.