Warren Brookbanks

Professor Warren Brookbanks is a Professor of Criminal Law and Justice Studies and Director of the Centre for Non-Adversarial Justice at AUT Law School. He has authored and co-authored leading textbooks in criminal law, mental health law, and fitness to plead and has co-edited texts on criminal justice and forensic psychiatry and law. He is also a contributing author and an updated author for New Zealand’s leading practitioners’ texts on criminal law and incapacity law. In addition to his teaching and other academic responsibilities he is involved in professional consultation and in recent years has undertaken research for various government departments in New Zealand and abroad, including the New Zealand, English, and Scottish Law Commissions, the New Zealand Ministry of Health and the former Mental Health Commission. He was a founding Trustee of the Odyssey House Trust (NZ), a former President of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law(ANZAPPL), and is currently chair of the Oakley Mental Health Foundation Trust Board.