Marco Rizzi

WA Department of Health - Category 2 Government Grant (2020) - Project title: ‘CORONAVAX: Preparing Community and Government’ - ($99,818.00) (with Chris Blyth, Katie Attwell, Samatha Carlson, Tauel Harper, Jordan Tchilingirian, Paul Effler, Catherine Hughes, Valerie Swift)

Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccine & Infectious Diseases - Catalyst Research Grant (2020) - Project title: ‘CORONAVAX: Preparing Community and Government’ - ($99,946.00) (with Chris Blyth, Katie Attwell, Samatha Carlson, Tauel Harper, Jordan Tchilingirian, Paul Effler, Catherine Hughes, Valerie Swift)

UWA Research Impact Grant (2019) - Project title: 'Building vaccine confidence against bad science: the role of liability and compensation schemes for vaccine related injuries' - ($20,000) (with Katie Attwell, UWA School of Social Sciences)

ASEM-DUO Fellowship Programme 'Duo Wallonia-Brussels' (2019) - Project title: 'Law, Artificial Intelligence and the Future' (€5,000) (with Christophe Lazaro, UC Louvain)

UWA IAS Visiting Fellowship (2019) - Project title: 'Law, Artificial Intelligence and the Future' ($3,000) - invited guest: Prof. Christophe Lazaro (UC Louvain)

UWA Educational Enhancement Unit (2018) - Project title: 'Flipping Torts, using digital tech to enhance JD students' learning experience ($5,000) (with Kate Offer, UWA Law School)

Marco joined UWA Law School in 2018 where he teaches in the JD and LLM programs. He obtained an LLB and a Masters in Civil Law at the University of Pisa, and an Honours Diploma in Legal Sciences at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa (Italy). He holds an LLM in European, Comparative and International Law from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy), where he went on to undertake research for his PhD, awarded in 2015. Prior to joining UWA he has been Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Law at the University of Seychelles.

LAWS4106 Torts (JD)

LAWS5181 Health Law & Policy (JD/LLM/Masters)

LAWS5215 Theory & Practice of Risk Regulation (Masters/LLM/SJD)

2018 - 2020 Member (Lawyer), UWA Human Research Ethics Committee

2019 - 2020 Member, UWA Law School Learning and Teaching Committee

2015 - 2017 Head of Department of Law, University of Seychelles

2014 - 2017 Senior Lecturer in Law,  University of Seychelles / University of London

2013 - 2014 Trainer for Judges, EUI Centre for Judicial Cooperation

2012 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley School of Law

2011 Visiting Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

2009 - 2011 Legal Advisor, LexJus Sinacta - Florence (Private practice)

Member - UWA Academic Board

Member - Committee of Management of the UWA Academic Staff Association 

UWA Law School Academic Conduct Advisor

Mental Health First Aider - accredited with Mental Health First Aid Australia

Marco researches the law as a tool for the protection of individual and collective health and safety. His interests span the public private/divide and the public functions of private law, with a specific focus on the interplay between torts and regulation in its modern hybrid and transnational form. He also explores the evolving relationship between risk, uncertainty and law, and the extent to which legal tools can effectively address emerging risks and the power relations that inspire regulatory action.

As a firm believer in the non-neutrality of the law, in his research he also actively engages with the uneasy relationship between the legal and the political.

Marco is currently under contract with:

• Cambridge University Press - Research monograph based on his PhD dissertation, working title: Transnational Pharmaceutical regulation in the Courts - Closed System, Hard Looks;

• Routledge - Monograph exploring theories and practices of the relationship between risk and the law, working title: Risk - New Trajectories in Law.