Marco is Associate Professor at UWA Law School where teaches Torts, Law & Power, and Risk Regulation, and he is Co-Director of the Centre for Health Law and Policy.

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 the policy and regulation of therapeutic goods, medical liability, vaccine policy and regulation, risk and regulatory theory, 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, member of Academic Board, of the DEI Committee, and Deputy Head of the Law School (Students) at UWA. He is currently the Law School's Graduate Research Coordinator and the President of the UWA Academic Staff Association.

Graduate Research Coordinator - UWA Law School

Co-Director - Centre for Health Law and Policy 

Elected Member - UWA Academic Board

President - UWA Academic Staff Association

• Tort Law
• Health Law & Policy
• Risk Regulation
• Regulatory Theory
• Law & Technology

LAWS4106 Torts [JD]

LAWS5215 Risk Regulation [Hons/Masters/JD]

LAWS3344 Law and Power [BA (Law & Society)] 

Current projects:

WA Department of Health - FHRI Innovation Challenge: Generative Artificial Intelligence Applications (2024) - Project title: 'Using in-silico generative artificial intelligence modelling to predict bacteriophage activity against specific AMR bacteria' ($500,000) - Role: Chief Investigator

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

Completed projects:

Lotterywest and UWA - COVID-19 grants (2020) - Project title: 'Charities Accessing Reserves: Building Resilience by Helping WA Charities Access their Reserves in Crises' ($80,000) - 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

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)

2023 - 2025 Staff Union Representative, UWA Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee

2022 - 2024 Deputy Head of School (Students), UWA Law School 

2021 - 2024 Secretary, UWA Academic Staff Association

2024 Visiting Fellow, ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance

2018 - 2022 Senior Lecturer, UWA Law School

2019 - 2020 Academic Conduct Advisor, UWA Law School 

2019 - 2020 Learning and Teaching Committee, UWA Law School 

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, Italy (Private practice)