Alex Steel
Associate Professor
BA LLB MA MacqAssociate Dean (Education)
Contact details
- Room:
- 328 Law Building
- Phone:
- 9385 2270
- E-mail:
- a.steel@unsw.edu.au
Brief overview
Alex Steel is the Associate Dean (Education) and an Associate Professor in the Law School. He has published widely on theft, fraud and dishonesty law and theory. He is an author of the highly regarded Criminal Laws: Materials and Commentary on the Criminal Law and Procedure of NSW (4th ed). Alex has also produced detailed law reform reports for Government and makes regular submissions to law reform bodies. Alex is a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the NSW Bar Association and an expert advisor to the NSW Law Reform Commission. He was previously a Consultant to the NSW Attorney General's Department, Criminal Law Review Division.
He is a holder of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant as part of the Australian Prisons Project where his focus is on charting the nature of changes to sentencing related legislation since 1970. Other current research involves examination of new Australian fraud laws, and approaches to legal definitions of identity crimes.
He regularly comments on criminal law matters in the media and via his twitter page http://twitter.com/crimlawnsw.
Alex is a recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2008); an Innovative Teaching and Educational Technology Fellowship (2003), and a UNSW Learning and Teaching Award (2005/6).
Courses taught
Areas of expertise
Criminal law, fraud and dishonesty, identity fraud, prisons and penology, criminal legal theory
Professional memberships and affiliations
NSW Bar Association, Criminal Law Committee, Honorary Academic Member
- 2006 Consultant, Criminal Law Review Division, NSW Attorney General's Department
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, Management Committee
Crime and Justice Research Network, Member
- 2010 UNSW Law Journal, Faculty Advisor
Research supervision
Belinda Russom
Juliette Overland (ANU)
Grants
| Purchase of identified monographs in the area of Criminal Law and Criminology A. Steel and L. Bosenquet | CI | 2009 UNSW Major Research Equipment & Infrastructure Scheme | 2009 | 1 year | $100,000 |
| The Prison Project: Penal Culture and the Re-invention of the Prison in Australia A Steel, C Cunneen, D Brown, E Baldry and M Brown | CI | ARC Discovery Grant | 2008 | 3 years | $510,553. |
| Development on AustLII of subject-specific research Libraries to support UNSW Law Faculty research strengths, and better dissemination of outputs A Steel, G Greenleaf, G Williams, A Byrnes and M Walpole | CI | UNSW Major Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative | 2007 | 1 year | $75,000 |