Marco is Associate Professor at UWA Law School where he teaches Torts and Health Law & Policy in the JD, and Risk Regulation in the Masters programmes. His teaching experience spans a variety of private law, regulatory and theoretical subjects, across both core courses and specialised electives, as well as multiple course structures and delivery methods.

His research interests include health law & policy, risk regulation, tort law (in particular questions of causation), and law & technology. Marco is well versed in doctrinal, interdisciplinary and multi-method research and he is an experienced collaborator and grant applicant.

He is also a dedicated member of the University community and has taken up significant service roles throughout his career, including Head of Department and member of Senate at his previous institution, and lawyer of the Human Research Ethics Committee and member of Academic Board at UWA. He is currently Deputy Head of School for Students.

• Torts (in particular questions of causation and medical neglience)
• Health Law & Policy
• Risk Regulation
• Law & Technology

Deputy Head of School (Students)

Elected Member - UWA Academic Board

Secretary - UWA Academic Staff Association 

LAWS4106 Torts (JD)

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

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

Funding for main current or recently completed projects:

MRFF - Early to Mid-Career Researchers (2021) - Project title: 'MandEval: Effectiveness and Consequences of Australia's COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates' ($4,754,183) - Role: Chief Investigator

MRFF - Genomics Health Futures Mission (2021) - Project title: 'LINEAGE: Law, ethics and sociology of data governance in genomics' ($4,999,986) - Role: Chief Investigator

Lotterywest and UWA - COVID-19 grants (2020) - Project title: 'Charities Accessing Reserves: Building Resilience by Helping WA Charities Access their Reserves in Crises' ($44,000) - Role: Chief Investigator

WA Department of Health - FHRI Focus Grants: COVID-19 (2020) - Project title: 'CORONAVAX 3: Helping the hard-to-reach' - ($224,991.00) - Role: Chief Investigator

WA Department of Health - Category 2 Government Grant (2020) - Project title: ‘CORONAVAX: Preparing Community and Government’ - ($99,818.00) - Role: Chief Investigator

Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccine & Infectious Diseases - Catalyst Research Grant (2020) - Project title: ‘CORONAVAX: Preparing Community and Government’ - ($99,946.00) - Role: Chief Investigator

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) - Role: Project Lead

Funding for exchanges and visiting programs:

Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Programme (2023) - Visiting the department of Public Law and Historico-Legal Sciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (€2,620)

UWA IAS Visiting Fellowship (2023) - Project title: 'The electoral consequences of affective polarization' ($4,500) - invited guest: Prof. Diego Garzia (University of Lausanne)

ASEM-DUO Fellowship Programme 'Duo Wallonia-Brussels' (2019) - Project title: 'Law, Artificial Intelligence and the Future' (€5,000) - Role: Project Lead

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

2018 - 2022 Senior Lecturer, UWA Law School

2019 - 2020 UWA Law School Academic Conduct Advisor

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

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