Ronald J. Riccio served as Dean of Seton Hall School of Law from 1988-1999. He is currently a Professor of Law.  He teaches Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Business Associations, and Civil Procedure. He is also General Counsel to the national law firm of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, where he litigates, mediates, and arbitrates in a variety of contexts including class actions, constitutional matters, securities cases, and as a court-appointed mediator in such cases as the Oneida Indian Land Claim Dispute and the Middletown public school teachers strike. He has been named in the 25th anniversary edition to the Best Lawyers in America on the specialty of Appellate Law and as a New Jersey Super Lawyer since inception.

Professor Riccio has received numerous awards including the New Jersey State Bar Association's Medal of Honor, the St. Thomas More Medal, the B'nai Brith Humanitarian Award, Ann Klein Advocate Award for the Disabled, ACLU of New Jersey Roger N. Baldwin Civil Liberties Award, and the Columbian Foundation's Achievement and Humanitarian Award. He has been selected five times as Professor of the Year. He held the position as Andrea Catania Fellow for Excellence in Teaching from 2005-2007.

Professor Riccio is a Trustee of the Monmouth Medical Center, a board member of Enterprise Holding Co. ( a wholly owned subsidiary of Horizon Blue Cross), and a founding member of the New Jersey Commission of Professionalism.

In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks Professor Riccio was appointed by the Governor to serve as the public member of the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force.

Professor Riccio graduated in 1968 from Seton Hall University with honors. In 1971 he graduated from Seton Hall Law School where he was a member of the school's first public Law Review. He served a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Lawrence A. Whipple of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. From 1971-1988, he was an active trial and appellate lawyer with the firm of Robinson, Wayne, Riccio and LaSala.