Camille Lefebvre is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law of the Leiden University, in a joint program (cotutelle) with the École supérieure d'études internationales of Université Laval. Her research interests include international human rights law, international refugee law, TWAIL, crimmigration and securitization. Her doctoral research, interdisciplinary in nature, aims to better understand the criminalization of migration in Canada, relying on TWAIL, crimmigration and securitization approaches.

After completing a Judicial Fellowship at the International Court of Justice (2023-2024) and a clerkship at the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada (2022-2023), she is now a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law (2023-2026).

She is the recipient of the Louis Philippe Pigeon Award (2024), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Grant (2022), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Grant (2021) and the John Peters Humphrey Fellowship (2021).