Pamela Chapman, BA (Toronto) 1983, LLB (Osgoode Hall) 1986, is a labour arbitrator, mediator, and educator. From 2009 to 2012 she was a part-time member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and from 1993 to 2002 a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. After her call to the bar in 1988, she practiced law in Toronto, 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 has taught at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section since January 2002, where she teaches labour law, grievance arbitration and trial advocacy, coordinates third-year placements at federal tribunals and courts, and coaches labour law moot teams. 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, and in 2009 she taught labour and employment law at Osgoode Hall Law School. She 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.
