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Terry Carney AO is Emeritus Professor of Law at the 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 and over 250 academic papers, he was a member of the 1980-1982 committee that drafted Australia’s first modern adult guardianship Act, later conducted an empirical evaluation of Victorian and NSW guardianship (Carney & Tait The Adult Guardianship Experiment: Tribunals and popular justice Federation Press, 1997) and served on reference committees for the Victorian and Australian Law Reform Commission inquiries on guardianship in 2012 and 2014. Most recently he has been a chief investigator on an ARC funded linkage grant team researching supported decision-making and undertaking research for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. |