Pamela Chapman
Sessional Professor
538-540 King Edward St., Room 216
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
pamela.chapman@uOttawa.ca
(613) 562 5800 ext. 7909
(613) 562-5124
B.A. (Toronto), LL.B. (Osgoode), of the Bar of Ontario
Pamela Chapman has taught at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section since January 2002. Her teaching includes labour law, grievance arbitration, and trial advocacy, and she supervises the Federal Tribunals Practice Seminar, clerkships to the Regional Senior Justice of the Ontario Court, and organizes the Hicks Morley labour law moot. She is currently teaching as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and in 2009 she taught labour and employment law as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. From January 2000 to May 2003 Professor 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 completing a master’s degree in law. Professor 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.
Professor Chapman continues her practice as a labour arbitrator and mediator. She was a part-time Member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario from 2009 to 2012, and a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board from 1993 to 2002. 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. Professor Chapman 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, and develops and delivers training to lawyers, employers, unions and tribunals on a wide range of issues. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law, and the Ontario Labour Management Arbitrators' Association.