Ian Freckelton is a professorial fellow in law and psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, an adjunct professor of law and forensic medicine at Monash University, and an adjunct professor of law at La Trobe University. A former president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law he is the editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and the editor-in-chief of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Freckelton is a Queen's Counsel at the Victorian Bar, practicing as a barrister throughout Australia.