Bernadette McSherry is a professor of law, specialising in mental health law and criminal law, at the University of Melbourne.
She is currently the Foundation Director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and an Adjunct Professor of law at Monash University and the Melbourne Law School.
She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and President of the Transnational Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.