Career Summary
Rick Snell is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Tasmania. His research, ideas and teaching have been influential within Australia and internationally.
After joining the Law School he quickly built an international reputation in the area of Freedom of Information and within six years was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award and was profiled as one of the 48 Australian academics with exemplary or noteworthy approaches to teaching (Ballantyne et al Reflecting on University Teaching Academics’ Stories 1997). Since that time he has developed a growing reputation in the area of Ombudsman studies.
Rick was formerly a member of the Tasmanian Administrate Review Advisory Council which advises the Tasmanian Attorney-General on Administrative Law matters. He was an elected and active member of the governing Council of the University of Tasmania from 2003-2006.
Units Taught
LAW609 - Comparative Administrative Law
LAW204 - Administrative Law
LAW121 - Introduction to Law
Unit List
Research Interests
He has several research interests including government transparency, public sector governance, comparative administrative law (especially freedom of information and ombudsman) and the media.
Teaching
Rick is a University of Tasmania Teaching Excellence Award winner and received a 2008 National Citation for Teaching but more importantly he loves to teach.
Teaching and research are intertwined, or concomitant, elements of his professional life. He
strives to link teaching and research, and build upon those links, to aim for what the former vice-chancellor of Wollongong University Ken McKinnon described as a spiral of quality – a continuous cycle of planning, acting, observing and reflecting.
As a teacher he is inclusive, people orientated and has a passion to search out, test and pass on knowledge whether it be from a lectern, the pages of a journal or an on-line opinion piece. For students, experts and the community he trys to act as a bridge or conduit between research, ideas, public law values and the needs of citizens.
Rick Snell has recently been awarded the following teaching prizes:
• 2008 Australian National Citation for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
• 2009 UTAS Teaching Excellence Award
• 2009 Lexis Nexis Australasian Law Teacher of the Year for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation
Selected Publications:- RD Snell, 2002, 'FOI: threatened by governments, underused by journalists - still a sharp tool', Journalism Investigation & Research Longman, , Longman, S Tanner (ed), pgs. 150-164
- RD Snell, 2001, 'Freedom of Information: The Experience of the Australian States - An Epiphany?', Federal Law Review, 29 (3), pgs. 343-358
- RD Snell, 2002, 'FoI and the Delivery of Diminishing Returns, or How Spin Doctors and Journalists have Mistreated a Volatile Reform', The Drawing Board Journal, 2 (3), pgs. 187-207
- RD Snell, 2006, 'Freedom of Information Practices', AGENDA, 13 (4), pgs. 291-307
- RD Snell, 2007, 'Australian Ombudsman: A continual work in progress', Australian Administrative Law, Cambridge University Press (Matthew Groves and HP Lee (ed), pgs. 100-115
- RD Snell and P Sebina, 2007, 'Information Flows: The real art of Information Management and Freedom of Information', Archives and Manuscripts: The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, 35 (1), pgs. 54-82
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