Rate My Professor Anahita Riegler

Riegler's research interests encompass international business law, criminology, transnational crimes, and human rights issues. Key publications include 'Structuring the AfCFTA's Rules of Origin to Promote Competitive Distribution of Investment in Africa: Lessons from the SADC' (TDM 4 (2021), Africa; advance publication 25 January 2021). She has presented at conferences such as the 8th International Conference on Modern Research in Education, Teaching and Learning on 'Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Academic Writing Instruction' (2024), the Western Australia Teaching and Learning Forum on 'Empowering student essay writing through the use of ChatGPT as a teaching and learning tool' (2024), and others on the evolution of teaching. As a supervisor, she has guided PhD theses including 'Intimate partner homicide: Themes in Judges' sentencing remarks' (2017), 'Justice Without Support, Understanding or Accountability' (2023), 'Bypassing Algorithms, Reinforcing Stereotypes: Social Media Algorithms and the Online Radicalisation of Women' (2024), and 'Cleaning-up our acts: A socio-legal appraisal of Western Australia's need for a legislative ban on single-use plastics' (2020). In 2025, she received the Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for transforming traditional approaches to teaching and assessment in criminology through creative, inclusive practices with ethical AI integration, including scaffolded assessments, collaborative learning, teaching by analogy, and interactive rubrics, which improved student writing confidence, essay quality, and reduced academic integrity issues while equipping students to use generative AI ethically.