Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 18, 2016
• Invested on: March 19, 2021

Paul Cronin Weiler, O.C.
Vancouver, British Columbia and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Paul Weiler is one of North America’s foremost labour law scholars. As chair of British Columbia’s Labour Relations Board, he crafted the province’s labour code, innovative legislation known for its progressive character and emulated in many other jurisdictions. Later, as a long-time professor at Harvard Law School, he became a leader in his discipline and shaped a generation of legal minds, authoring publications on arbitration, workers’ compensation systems, gender pay equity, comparative constitutional law, sports law, entertainment law, and medical malpractice.