Penelope Weller

Penelope Weller is the director of the Juris Doctor in the Graduate School of Business and Law at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Weller is an international expert on the Convention on the Rights of Person with Disablities and mental health law reform. She teaches human rights law, administrative law, and jurisprudence. She is Chair of the RMIT College of Business Human Research Ethics Committee. Recent journal papers include 'The Contradictions of Gender: Mental health Research, Policy, Law and Human Rights' (in the Griffith Law Review, 2016), 'Legal Capacity and Access to Justice: The Right To Participation in the CRPD' (in Laws, 2016) and 'Governmentality and the CRPD: A Radical Critique of Disability in Law (in Griffith Law Review, 2014). Her books include New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives: The Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities and the Right to Choose (2013) and Rights Based Mental Health Laws (with Bernadette McSherry, 2010). Professor Weller was previously the Deputy Director of the Center for Advancement of Law and Mental Health in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Victoria.