Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Aidan Ricciardo is a nationally-awarded law teacher and a legal researcher whose academic expertise covers evidence law, health and medical law, learning and teaching in law, and diversity in law. Aidan is a Lecturer in the Law School, where he teaches into the postgraduate Juris Doctor degree and the undergraduate Law & Society course.
Aidan's teaching excellence has been acknowledged with numerous awards and commendations, including the 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award (Early Career) in the Australian Legal Education Awards.
Aidan is also one of the Law School's Diversity Advisors, and a member of the Law School's Learning and Teaching Committee.
Teaching overview
Aidan coordinates and lectures into the following units:
- LAWS5107 Evidence
- LAWS2220 Birth, Life & Death: Health & Medical Law
- LAWS4101 Foundations of Law & Lawyering
Aidan has also taught into several other units in the Law Masters, Juris Doctor, and Law and Society degrees, including Torts and Law for Everyday Lives.
Funding overview
The Law Society of WA Public Purposes Trust, 2019 – 'Understanding, Promoting, and Supporting Diversity in Legal Education and the Profession' – $10,000 (With N Skead, M Thomas, S Tarrant, S Rogers and S Puttick).
Teaching and Research Nexus Grant, 2021 – 'A Closer Look at Case Law Reading in the Juris Doctor' – $2,500 (With S Murray, I Murray and J Falck).
Community engagement
Aidan is a Legal Member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the South Metropolitan Health Service (at Fiona Stanley Hospital).
Aidan also maintains a blog about Evidence Law in Western Australia: www.WAevidence.com
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Laws, University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
Bachelor of Laws (Hons), The University of Western Australia
Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies), The University of Western Australia
External positions
Admitted as a Lawyer of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
Lawyer on the Human Research Ethics Committee at the South Metropolitan Area Health Service (Fiona Stanley Hospital)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Research expertise keywords
- Health Law
- Medical Law
- Evidence Law
- Gender Diversity and the Law
- Negligence
- Legal Education
- Diversity in Law
- Torts
Research output
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Minors’ Capacity to Consent to Puberty Suppressing Treatment
Ricciardo, A., 2022, In: Journal of Professional Negligence. 38, 1, p. 38-45Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Harm Caused by Medical Interventions Which Alter Intersex Variations: Can Negligence Provide a Remedy?
Ricciardo, A., 2021, In: University of Tasmania Law Review. 40, 2, p. 91-139Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding, Promoting and Supporting LGBTQI+ Diversity in Legal Education
Ricciardo, A., Rogers, S., Puttick, S., Skead, N., Tarrant, S. & Thomas, M., 2022, In: The Law Teacher. 56, 3, p. 307-334 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Police Cautions and Admissibility of Evidence: Does Failure to Understand the Police Caution Render an Accused Person’s Admission Involuntary?
Ricciardo, A., 2021, Brief, 48, 6, p. 30-30 1 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication › peer-review
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First a Failure to Inform, then a Failure to Listen: Why the plaintiff’s evidence about what they would have done should not be inadmissible in failure to inform cases
Ricciardo, A., 2020, In: Torts Law Journal. 26, 2, p. 117-137Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile332 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Understanding, promoting and supporting diversity in legal education and the profession
Skead, N., Tarrant, S., Puttick, S., Thomas, M., Ricciardo, A. & Rogers, S.
Law Society of Western Australia
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Prizes
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Excellence in Teaching Award (Early Career Academic) – UWA Law School
Ricciardo, Aidan (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Award
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Excellence in Teaching Award (Early Career Academic) – Australian Legal Education Awards
Ricciardo, Aidan (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Award
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Students' Choice Teaching Award (Semester 1) - UWA Student Guild
Ricciardo, Aidan (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Award
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Frank Pinkerton Scholarship for Current Issues in Negligence
Ricciardo, Aidan (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Postgraduate Scholarship
Activities
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Quoted and cited in the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia's 'Review of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA)' Final Report
Aidan Ricciardo (Independent expert )
2022Activity: Industry and government engagement/consultancy › Citation in Australian or overseas Parliamentary department, intergovernmental and NGO reports
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Submission to the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme
Aidan Ricciardo (Consultant)
2022Activity: Industry and government engagement/consultancy › Submissions to or appearance before a government committee, inquiry or agency
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Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs – Universal Access to Reproductive Healthcare Inquiry
Aidan Ricciardo (Consultant)
15 Dec 2022Activity: Industry and government engagement/consultancy › Submissions to or appearance before a government committee, inquiry or agency
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Cited in the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia's 'Review of Sexual Offences' Background Paper
Aidan Ricciardo (Independent expert )
Dec 2022Activity: Industry and government engagement/consultancy › Citation in Australian or overseas Parliamentary department, intergovernmental and NGO reports
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Submission to the Western Australian Department of Health – Abortion Legislation Reform Inquiry
Aidan Ricciardo (Consultant)
17 Dec 2022Activity: Industry and government engagement/consultancy › Submissions to or appearance before a government committee, inquiry or agency
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