Terry Carney

Terry Carney AO is Emeritus Professor of Law at the Law School, University of Sydney and Visiting Research Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney.  A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, he is a past President (2005-2007) of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health.  The author of nearly a dozen books/monographs and over 200 academic papers, his recent books include: Carney, T., D. Tait, J. Perry, A. Vernon and F. Beaupert, Australian Mental Health Tribunals: Space for fairness, freedom, protection & treatment? (Sydney: Themis/NSWLaw Foundation, 2011, i-xi, 1-353); Managing Anorexia Nervosa:  Clinical, Legal & Social Perspectives on Involuntary Treatment (New York: Nova Science, 2006); Social Security Law and Policy (Sydney: Federation press, 2006) and Bennett, B., Carney, T., & Karpin, I. (eds), The Brave New World of Health.  Federation Press, 2008.  He is a Chief Investigator on Australian Research Council funded studies on ‘National registration of health practitioners: a comparative study of the complaints and notification system under the national system and in NSW’ and ‘Effective Decision Making Support for People with Cognitive Disability’