Hamish Stewart

Hamish Stewart is a professor of law at the Henry NR Jackman Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where since 1993 he has taught evidence, criminal law, and legal theory. Within the University, he serves as Senior Chair of the Academic Appeals Committee. Before attending law school, Professor Stewart studied economics (BA, University of Toronto, 1983; PhD, Harvard University, 1989). He received his LLB degree from the University of Toronto in 1992, clerked at the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992–1993, and was called to the bar of Ontario in 1998. Professor Stewart is co-author, with Sidney Lederman and Michelle Fuerst, of The Law of Evidence in Canada, 6th ed (LexisNexis, 2022). Professor Stewart’s other publications include Fundamental Justice: Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 2nd ed (Irwin Law, 2019); the Evidence title of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada (LexisNexis, reissue forthcoming in 2027); and more than 90 scholarly papers on topics in criminal law, evidence, legal theory, and economics.