Professor Ian Freckelton SC

Deputy Director, Centre for the Advancement of Law and Mental Health
BA (Hons), LLB, Dip Th M (ANH), PhD (Griffith), Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine,

Professional Profile

Ian Freckelton is a Senior Counsel practising full-time from Crockett Chambers in administrative law, criminal law, personal injury and medico-legal work at both trial and appellate level. Ian is also a Professor with Monash Law School and in the schools of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine and of Forensic Medicine. He has been a member of nine statutory tribunals and is currently a member of the mental Health Review Board and of the Coronial Council. At Monash he has been the Vice-President of the International Institute of Forensic Studies and is closely involved with the Rethinking Mental Health Laws project . He has been the transnational and Victorian President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.

Ian is the Editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine, the Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law and a Board member of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Forensic Sciences. He is the author of some three dozen books and over 400 peer reviewed articles and chapters of books on medical law, coronial law, mental health law, evidence law, causation, compensation law, criminal law, therapeutic jurisprudence, sentencing, and policing. His OUP book (with David Ranson) on Death Investigation and the Coroner’s Inquest was short-listed as the Australian scholarly book of the year in 2006. His most recent books are the 4th edition of his book with Hugh Selby, Expert Evidence: Law, Practice, Procedure and Advocacy (Thomson, 2009), Appealing to the Future: the Legacy of Michael Kirby (Thomson, 2009) and (with Danielle Andrewartha) the 5th edition of Indictable Offences in Victoria (Thomson, 2010). He is currently finalising work on National Regulation of Health Practitioners (Federation Press, 2011, forthcoming) and Scholarly Misconduct and the Law (Federation Press, 2011, forthcoming).

Areas of Expertise

Administrative law
Criminal law
Personal injury

Teaching Commitments

Health law and human rights (LAW7431)
Advanced torts (LAW7467)