Daniel Del Gobbo (he/him) is an Assistant Professor and Chair in Law, Gender & Sexual Justice at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law.
Daniel's research interests fall at the intersections of civil procedure and dispute resolution, human rights and equality law, restorative justice, legal ethics, and gender and sexuality. A former litigator, Daniel's research borrows concepts from feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, law and emotions, and law and humanities and integrates them into procedural law debates, troubling the field's foundations and reimagining the law's role in facilitating access to justice and social justice for historically marginalized groups. His book, Feminist Frontlines: Campus Sexual Violence and Conflict Resolution, is under contract with the University of Toronto Press.
Before joining Windsor Law in 2023, Daniel was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the McGill University Faculty of Law and Research Fellow in the Restorative Lab at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. He earned his S.J.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2021, where he was a Trudeau Scholar, SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, and CBA Viscount Bennett Fellow. He was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School's Center for Gender and Sexuality Law in 2019. Previously, Daniel earned his LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2015 and J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2011. A committed teacher and mentor, Daniel served as an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School from 2015 to 2019, where he received two awards for teaching excellence and promoting equity in the classroom.
Daniel's professional and community work are committed to the public interest. He currently serves on the Advisory Committees of the Class Actions Clinic at Windsor Law and the National Restorative Justice Research Network facilitated by Department of Justice Canada. Previously, Daniel has collaborated with the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), Status of Women Canada, and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on projects relating to civil litigation, restorative and transformative justice, sexual violence, humanitarian negotiation, women’s rights, and LGBTQ2S+ equality. His media commentary has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Policy Options, The Conversation, National Post, Lawyer's Daily, Ricochet, CP24, IN Magazine, and CBC Radio. Complementing this work, Daniel is a consultant with the Cambridge Negotiation Institute, a U.S.-based think tank and training centre that is focused on new frontiers in negotiation, conflict management, facilitation, dispute systems design, and emotional intelligence research.
At Windsor Law, Daniel teaches Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution, and Law and Sexuality. Most of his publications are available on SSRN.