Pascale Chapdelaine, LL.B and B.C.L. (Mc Gill) 1989, LL.M. (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) 1991. Member of Le Barreau du Québec (1992) and of the Bar of Ontario (1999), PhD (candidate) Osgoode Hall Law School, member of IP Osgoode and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Pascale is a lawyer who practiced law for more than 14 years in the area of intellectual property and corporate/commercial law, mainly in the telecom industry (i.e. between 1995 and 2006). As Vice-President and Executive Director Intellectual Property of Bell Canada and BCE Inc., she was responsible for the overall management of Bell Canada and affiliates intellectual property. Prior to joining Bell Canada, Pascale was an associate with the Montréal-based law firm Lavery, de Billy in the area of corporate, commercial and securities law. Before that, she was a Teaching and Research Associate at the Faculty of Law of the K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Pascale has taught and has conducted research in International Intellectual Property Law in New Zealand as Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Dunedin (2007) and in Belgium as Visiting Researcher, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, KU Leuven (2006-2007). Pascale is the recipient a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Award (SSHRC). Her research interests are: Copyright law, consumer law, International Intellectual Property law and the Legal Profession. Contact:
Pascale.chapdelaine@utoronto.ca 