BA (Toronto), LLB (Osgoode), LLM Candidate (Osgoode)

Pamela Chapman has taught at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section since January 2002.  She teaches labour law, grievance arbitration, and trial advocacy, supervises federal tribunal placements for third year students, and coaches labour law moot teams.  From January 2000 to May 2003, Ms. Chapman also taught in the Department of Law in the Faculty of Public Administration at Carleton University, teaching courses in labour law, employment law and administrative law, including a senior administrative law course offered at the graduate level.   She is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A. 1983) and of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B. 1986), where she is currently completing a master’s degree in law.  Ms. Chapman has been published in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Labour Arbitration Yearbook and the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, and her research and writing interests include labour law, administrative law and legal theory. 

Ms. Chapman continues her practice as a labour arbitrator and mediator, and is a part-time member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.  From 1993 to 2002 she was a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board.  After her call to the bar in 1988, she practiced law in Toronto, first as an associate in the labour relations group at a large firm, and then as a founding partner in a small firm specializing in labour and administrative law.  She speaks frequently on various labour, employment and administrative law topics, with a special emphasis on human rights and accommodation issues, as well as workplace privacy.