Researcher

My Expertise

Criminal law, theft and fraud law and policy, computer crime, higher education, legal education

Fields of Research (FoR)

Criminal law, Legal education

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Biography

Alex Steel is a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice, with interests in legal education and criminal law. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy and has a Commonwealth Government Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Alex has been Interim Pro Vice Chancellor Education twice (2019-20 and 2023-4), Director Teaching Strategy (2020-23), Director AI...view more

Alex Steel is a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice, with interests in legal education and criminal law. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy and has a Commonwealth Government Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Alex has been Interim Pro Vice Chancellor Education twice (2019-20 and 2023-4), Director Teaching Strategy (2020-23), Director AI Strategy Education (2024-5), Law Associate Dean Education (2009-14), Law Associate Dean Academic (2014-6) and a long-term member of Academic Board.

He has led initiatives to develop and implement a university wide digital assessment platform, develop the university’s strategic responses to generative AI in education, and respond to the educational impacts of the COVID pandemic.

Alex has extensive experience in curriculum development and review, both face to face and digital, with a particular focus on assessment formats and structures. He was a member of the Australian Law Schools Standards Committee (2013-24) and has written commissioned Best Practice Guides for legal education.  He was previously co-convenor of the Legal Education Associate Deans (LEAD) Network (2012-16), been on the Executive of the Australasian Law Teachers Association and remains on the Editorial Committee of the Legal Education Review.

Alex's education related publications range across the pedagogy and regulation of legal education, curriculum design, assessment practices, student wellbeing and support for sessional academics.  He is currently examining the impact of generative AI on legal education. 

In the criminal law field he has published widely on property, dishonesty and identity crimes. He has produced detailed law reform reports for Government and made submissions to law reform bodies. Alex has been a member of the Education and Criminal Law Committees 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.

 

 


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

Legal Education; Higher Education Assessment Practices; Criminal Law, White Collar Crime

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Location

328 Law Building
UNSW SYDNEY
NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA

Contact

+61 2 9385 7720
+61 2 9385 1175