Admission Date

  • Barrister: May 2009
  • Lawyer: May 2008

Qualifications

LLB (First-class Honours) University of NSW
PhD (Neuroscience) University of Sydney
MSc (Neuropsychology) Macquarie University
MA (Counselling) Macquarie University
BA (Psychology Honours) University of Sydney

Previous Occupations

Clinical Neuropsychologist and Senior Research Officer
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute

2007 Tipstaff to Justice David Kirby, Supreme Court of New South Wales


Selected Publications

(Full list available on request)

  • Bennett H, Broe GA (2010) Judicial Decision-making and Neurobiology: The role of emotion and the ventromedial cortex in deliberation and reasoning. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences (Accepted for publication).

  • Bennett H, Broe GA (2009) The Neurobiology of Judicial Decision-making: Indigenous Australians, Native Title, and the Australian High Court, Public Law Review (Accepted for publication)

  • Bennett HP, Broe GA (2008) Brains, biology, and socio-economic disadvantage in sentencing: Implications for the politics of moral culpability, The Criminal Law Journal, 32, 167-179.

  • Bennett HP, Broe GA (2007) Judicial neurobiology, Markarian synthesis and Emotion: How can the human brain make sentencing decisions? The Criminal Law Journal, 31, 75-90.

  • Bennett HP, Hallen P (2005) Guardianship and Financial Management Legislation: What Doctors in Aged Care need to Know. Internal Medicine Journal, 35, 482-487.

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