Pamela Chapman is a labour arbitrator, mediator, and educator, a part-time member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and a former Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. She was first appointed to the Board as a full-time Vice-Chair in November 1993 and moved to part-time status in September 1998, concluding her third and final term in July 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. Pamela speaks frequently on various labour, employment and administrative law topics, with a special emphasis on human rights and accommodation, as well as workplace privacy, and does training on a wide range of workplace issues for unions, employers, tribunals and other organizations.

Pamela has taught at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, Common Law Section since January 2002. 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, Pamela 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 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. Pamela has been published in theOsgoode 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.