About the author

• Author: Hamish Stewart
• Profession: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Pages: 339-339

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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 principal author of Sex-

ual Offences in Canadian Law (2004) and has published more than f‌ifty

scholarly papers in crim inal law, evidence, legal theory, and economics.

He recently contributed the Evidence title to Halsbury’s Laws of Canada

(2010). He is the general editor of Evidence: A Canadian Ca sebook, 3d ed

(2011) and an associate editor of the Canadian Criminal Cases.