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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 was previously at Auckland Law School where he taught from 1983 to 2016. He is co-author of Bell & Brookbanks, Mental Health Law in New Zealand (3nd edn, (2017), Simester & Brookbanks, Principles of Criminal Law (5th edn, 2019) and Mackay & Brookbanks (eds), Fitness to Plead: International and Comparative Perspectives (OUP, 2018), Mackay & Brookbanks (eds) The Insanity Defence (OUP, 2022). In addition, he has co-authored or edited a number of books on forensic psychiatry and law, unfitness to stand trial, criminal justice and therapeutic jurisprudence together with numerous published articles. In addition to overseeing undergraduate research he is involved in professional consultation and is a regular presenter at professional conferences and seminars.
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 former chair of the Oakley Mental Health Foundation Trust Board