Lisa Trabucco is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, from which she graduated in 1991.
Dr. Trabucco’s research focuses on nonlawyer legal service provision and the regulation of nonlawyers, access to justice, and the legal profession's professional regulation. Her dissertation—“The Regulation of Paralegals in Ontario: Increased Access to Justice?”—explored whether paralegal regulation has increased access to justice as the government promised it would, by conducting empirical research of paralegal representatives at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal of Ontario.
Professor Trabucco’s teaching interests include tort law, the legal profession and professional ethics, access to justice, civil procedure, sport law, contracts, and intellectual property. Lisa has acted as Associate Dean (Students), Faculty Advisor for the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues, and Faculty Lead of the Academic Success as well as Advocacy and Writing programs. 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 for almost 10 years.
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.