Adjunct Professor Ray Steinwall

Dr Ray Steinwall is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice. He is a Member of the Australian Competition Tribunal, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and a legal practitioner of the High Court of Australia.

His teaching and professional experience spans competition law, commercial contracts, economic regulation and corporations law. His other teaching and research interests include competition and consumer law in the Asia Pacific and cultural diversity.

He has delivered training and other support to competition and consumer agencies in the Asia/Pacific. He has also consulted to the Asian Development Bank on competition and consumer policy. He is a leading scholar on the competition laws of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and published the first comprehensive doctrinal study of ASEAN competition law - Competition law in ASEAN. 

He is the founding Editor of the Competition and Consumer Law Journal. He has published extensively, including several books and articles. He is also a regular contributor in the media on competition and consumer law, regulation, cultural diversity and public policy.

He has extensive experience as a lawyer at major national law firms where he has advised governments and business on competition, consumer, commercial and regulatory law. He was also General Counsel for a pricing, regulatory and economic regulator and General Counsel for a major multinational company. 

Previously he was a member of the Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council and a member of an Expert Panel on unconscionable conduct and the Franchising Code of conduct.

He also served as a principal policy advisor in the central government of New South Wales where he was responsible for the implementation of competition policy and for providing advice on industry regulation, competitive neutrality, third party access regimes, the national electricity market and the commercialisation and corporatisation of government entities.

His broader interests include the role of good leadership in transforming people and organisations, ensuring greater cultural diversity in Australia's institutions (including the judiciary) and the use of plain language in law.