Assistant Dean, Professional Programs and Community Services
Faculty of Law, University of Windsor
Lisa joined Windsor Law in 2017 after a decade of teaching in Ontario's paralegal programs which followed 15 years in legal practice. She has a wealth of experience in curriculum design, teaching and learning innovation, as well as workshop creation and delivery for legal professionals. In her current role as Assistant Dean, Professional Programs and Community Services at Windsor Law, Lisa's focus is on creating professional development programming for lawyers and licensed paralegals. She is working with members of the legal profession, administrative tribunals, and other groups to create opportunities for enhanced learning, networking, and relationship-building.
Lisa has held the positions of Acting Associate Dean (Students) and Assistant Professor. She continues to teach at Windsor Law.
Dr. Trabucco holds both a PhD and LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, an LLB from the University of Windsor, and a Journalism degree (BJ Hons.) from Carleton University. After her call to the bar of Ontario 1993, she practiced law for 15 years in the areas of civil litigation, intellectual property, and administrative law.
Dr. Trabucco’s research interests include the legal professions and professional regulation (of paralegals particularly), non-lawyer legal service provision, and access to justice. Her dissertation explored, through an empirical research study of representatives at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal, whether Ontario's paralegal regulatory scheme has increased access to justice, as the government promised it would.
Lisa’s teaching interests include tort law, the legal professions and professional ethics, legal research and writing, civil procedure, sport law, and trademarks. Lisa has also taught law courses in the Sport Management program at Brock university and was a faculty member in the paralegal program at Sheridan college for many years.