Rate My Professor Lisa Spagnolo

Lisa Spagnolo is an Associate Professor at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University. She earned her BCom (Dean's List, Bowater Prize) and LLB (First Class Honours, Supreme Court Prize, Supreme Court Exhibition Prize) from Deakin University, and her PhD (Mollie Holman Medalist) from Monash University. Before entering academia full-time, she practiced as a lawyer in banking and insolvency litigation at Minter Ellison. From 2004, she taught at Monash University Faculty of Law, joining Macquarie University as Associate Professor in late 2021.

Her academic interests encompass domestic and comparative contract law, uniform commercial law instruments including the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), choice of law, geographical indications, property law, and advocacy. Spagnolo adopts interdisciplinary methods such as law and economics, behavioural economics, statistical analysis, and integration of historical, scientific, and technical perspectives to analyze legal developments and real-world impacts. Key publications include the book CISG Exclusion and Legal Efficiency (2014), The Last Outpost: Automatic CISG Opt-Outs, Misapplications and the Costs of Ignoring the ULIS (2009), CISG Advisory Council Opinion No. 16 on Exclusion of the CISG under Article 6 (2015, as Rapporteur), Contract Interpretation and Merger Clauses: Part 1 (2021), Inside Out: The Outer Limits of the CISG in Times of Change (2025), and Wine Geographical Indications and Product Specifications: A Case of Prosecco Quality and Characteristics? (2022). She has served as a member of the CISG Advisory Council (Macquarie Law School), expert advisor to the New York State Bar Association, consultant to law firms and UNCITRAL, Australian Research Council grant assessor, and Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage Grant. As co-founder, Director, and Fellow of the UNCCA, her scholarship has been cited by the Swiss Federal Court, England and Wales Law Commission, courts, and government reports. At Macquarie Law School, she convenes LAWS8098 International Commercial Law and LAWS1200 Contracts.