Biography:
Ray Steinwall is a Member of the Australian Competition Tribunal and Adjunct Professor, UNSW Law.
He is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and a legal practitioner of the High Court of Australia.
He has extensive experience as a legal practitioner at major national law firms where he has advised governments and business on competition, consumer and commercial law. He was also General Counsel for a pricing, regulatory and economic regulator and General Counsel for a major multinational corporation.
His considerable research and teaching experience spans competition and consumer law and commercial contracts. His other research interests include competition and consumer regimes in the Asia Pacific. He is a leading scholar on the competition laws of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
He has published extensively, including several books and articles. He is also a regular contributor to publications on competition and consumer law, regulation and cultural diversity.
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 principal policy adviser in 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.
He is also the founding editor of the Competition and Consumer Law Journal.
Publications
- Competition and Consumer Act Annotated 2026. First published in 1994, updated and re-published annually
- Practice and Procedure of the High Court and Federal Court of Australia: Competition and Consumer Act. First published 1991 and re-published annually
- Competition and Consumer Law Journal
- Australian Consumer Law: A Guide, LexisNexis Sydney 2010
- Steinwall R (et al) Australian Competition Law, Butterworths (now LexisNexis) Sydney 2000
- Steinwall R (ed) Twenty Five Years of Australian Competition Law, Butterworths (now LexisNexis) Sydney 2000
- Halsburys Laws of Australia: Trade and Commerce - Restrictive Trade Practices Update, Butterworths (now LexisNexis) Sydney 2001
- Australian Commentary on Halsbury's Laws of England: Contract Law, Butterworths (now LexisNexis) Sydney1991
Professional Organisation
- Member, Competition and Consumer Committee, Law Council of Australia
- Member, Law Society of New South Wales