Professor Alex Steel
Director Teaching Strategy

Professor Alex Steel

DVC Academic & Student Life
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Alex Steel is Director Teaching Strategy (Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic), and a Professor in the Law Faculty.

Alex is an internationally recognised legal academic with interests in both criminal law and legal education. He has numerous teaching awards including a Commonwealth Government Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Alex was previously Associate Dean in the Law Faculty and co-convenor of the national Legal Education Associate Deans (LEAD) Network. He is a foundation member of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy, and former Director. 

Alex has extensive experience in the development of law curriculum regulation as a member of Australian Law School Standards Committee; work for the Law Admissions Advisory Committee and the Council of Australian Law Deans; and as an Assessor for the NSW Legal Profession Admissions Board.  He is a member of the NSW Bar Association's Education Committee.  Alex is an Executive member of the Australasian Legal Academics Association and member of the Editorial Committee of the Legal Education Review.

His legal education publications range across the pedagogy and regulation of legal education, curriculum design, assessment practices and student wellbeing. He has particular interests in student assessment and learning strategies.

In the criminal law field he has published widely on property and dishonesty and identity crimes.  Alex has also produced detailed law reform reports for Government and made submissions to law reform bodies. Alex has been a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the NSW Bar Association and an expert advisor to the NSW Law Reform Commission.  For a number of years he was a Policy Officer and then Consultant to the NSW Attorney General's Department, Criminal Law Review Division. 

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Room 203
The Chancellery
Room 328
The Law Building
University of New South Wales
UNSW Kensington Campus
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
(Access via Gate 2 off High Street)

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