Professor Bernadette McSherry

Research Interests

Bioethics
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure/Criminal Justice
Criminology
Legal and Moral Philosophy
Medical Law
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Psychology and Law

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Masters:

Haydon Ryan, Starson's Case: Revisiting the Concept of Insight in Involuntary Commitment Laws.

PhD:

Steven Yannoulidis, Mental Illness, Rationality and Criminal Responsibility (Full time PhD)
(Co-supervisor: Dale Smith).

Joanna Kyriakakis, Corporate Criminal Liability under International Criminal Law (SJD Thesis).

Mark Gumbleton, The Doctrine of Extended Common Purpose (SJD Thesis).

Debra Wilson, The Legality of Human Cloning (Part-time PhD).

Christopher Lane, Human Cryonic Suspension: A Medico-Legal Analysis of the Current Status and Future Implications of the Development of Human Cryonic Suspension (Part-time PhD).

Michael Eburn, The Responsibility to Protect Populations from Natural Disasters: An Extension of International Humanitarian Law (Part-time PhD).

Danielle Andrewartha, Lies, Litigation and the Law (Co-supervisor: Jonathan Clough).

Annegret Kaempf, The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health in Australia (Full time PhD).

Editorial Boards

International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
Monash Bioethics Review
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Legal Issues Editor, Journal of Law and Medicine

Grants and Commissions

2007-2012 ARC Federation Fellowship ($1.6M)
Rethinking Mental Health Laws: An Integrated Approach.

2007-2009: ARC Discovery Grant ($279,000) [With Patrick Keyzer, Sam Blay, John Petrila, Rajan Darjee]
Preventive Detention of High-Risk Offenders: The Search for Effective and Legitimate Parameters

2005 ARC Discovery Grant ($222,000) [With James Ogloff, John Crichton, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Lindsay Thomson] Confidentiality in Therapeutic Relationships: Developing Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals.

2005 ARC Linkage Grant ($143,501) [With Julie Debeljak and Susan Kneebone] Australia's Response to Trafficking in Women: Towards A Model for the Regulation of Forced Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region.

2005 Criminology Research Council ($64,000) [With Arie Freiberg and Patrick Keyzer] Preventive Detention for 'Dangerous' Offenders in Australia: A Critical Analysis and Proposals for Policy Development.

2005 Council of Australasian Tribunals (COAT) ($49,500) [With Pam O'Connor, Peter Sallman, Ian Freckleton and Bill Potter] Tribunal Members' Manual.

2005 Monash University Small Grant ($2000) Mental Health Law and Human Rights.

2002 Australian Research Council Large Grant ($79,453) [With Dr Danuta Mendelson, Livia Iacovino and Moira Paterson] Electronic Health Records: Achieving an Effective and Ethical Legal and Recordkeeping Framework.

2002 Monash University Small Grant ($6,000) Disclosure of Confidential Psychiatric Information: Legal and Ethical Issues.

2002 Strategic Monash University Research Fund ($4,100) The Role of the International Criminal Court in Combatting Terrorism.

2001 Monash University Small Grant ($9,512) Criminal Responsibility and Impaired Consciousness: Legal versus Psychological Concepts.

2001 Criminology Research Council Grant ($45,000) [With Professor Paul Mullen] Risk Assessment by Mental Health Professionals and the Prevention of Future Violent Behaviour.

2000 ARC Small Grant ($5,000) Confidentiality of Psychiatric and Psychological Communications, Dangerousness and the Duty to Warn.

Publications

2008

"'Dangerous' Legislation" (2008) Forensic Psychology and Criminology: An Australian Perspective 227-236.

"Mental health and human rights: The role of the law in developing a right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of mental health in Australia" (2008) 15 Journal of Law and Medicine 773-781.

2007

“Regulating Mental Healthcare Practitioners: Towards a Standardised and Workable Framework” (2007) 14(1) Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 45-55 (with Anna Macleod).

“Trafficking in Persons: A Critical Analysis of the New Criminal Code Offences” (2007) 18(3) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 385-398.

“The Criminal Justice Response to Trafficking in Persons: Practical Problems with Enforcement in the Asia-Pacific Region” (2007) 19(3) Global Change, Peace & Security 205-220 (with Miriam Cullen).

“Providing Mental Health Services and Psychiatric Care to Immigration Detainees: What Tort Law Requires” (2007) 14(2) Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 260-271 (with Azadeh Dastyari).

“Legal Snapshot – Provocation” (2007) 19(4) LegalDate 9.

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2007