Lisa Trabucco, Assistant Professor

Lisa Trabucco is an Assistant Professor at Windsor Law, having joined the Faculty of Law as Visiting Assistant Professor in 2017. 

Dr. Trabucco’s research interests include the legal profession and professional regulation, non-lawyer legal service provision and the regulation of non-lawyers, access to justice, negligence in sport, appropriation of personality, and athletes’ IP rights and morals clauses. Her dissertation – “The Regulation of Paralegals in Ontario: Increased Access to Justice?” – explored whether paralegal regulation has increased access to justice through empirical research of paralegal representatives at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal.

Professor Trabucco’s teaching interests include tort law, the legal profession and professional ethics, access to justice, civil procedure, sport law, contracts, and trademarks. Lisa has acted as Faculty Advisor for the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues and Faculty Lead of the Academic Success Program. She has also taught law courses in the Sport Management program at Brock University and, prior to joining Windsor Law, was a faculty member in the paralegal program at Sheridan College.

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 in 1993, Lisa practiced law for 15 years in the areas of civil litigation (negligence, personal injury, automobile insurance), intellectual property, and administrative law.