Pam Stewart joined the Law Faculty in 1996 and retired as Senior Lecturer, becoming an Adjunct Fellow in 2020. Prior to joining UTS she was engaged in private legal practice.

Pam has significant expertise in the field of Tort Law and contributes to the currency of scholarship in this field in Australia. Her book, Australian Principles of Tort Law (with Anita Stuhmcke), was the first response to the major tort law reforms that were introduced in all Australian jurisdictions in 2002 and is now in its 4th edition. The focus of much of Pam's continuing research in tort law has been on the way in which the law provides remedies for various classes of plaintiff including adolescents and young people, victims of human trafficking and slavery and victims of institutional child abuse. Pam has completed a study (with Anita Stuhmcke) of negligence cases in the High Court of Australia over a 10 year period, the results of which were published in 2014 in the Melbourne University Law Review and The Sydney Law Review. Pam and Anita Stuhmcke have completed further empirical research concerning special leave applications in the High Court of Australia, with results published in the Sydney Law Review and the Federal Law Review in 2019 and 2020.

Pam's teaching area has always been Tort Law. She values the connection between academic endeavour and the practical application of the law and her approach to teaching is to focus on the development of autonomous learners, who will become ethical, reflective and creative lawyers. Currency and relevance are integral to her teaching practice and her considerable experience in practice as a lawyer in the area in which she teaches and researches provides her teaching with a practical edge recognised and valued by students