Belinda Fehlberg has a DPhil (Law) from the University of Oxford, where she completed a doctoral thesis on spousal guarantees at the Centre for Socio-Legal Research in 1995. Prior to her appointment at the University of Melbourne in 1994, Belinda was a Lecturer at Warwick University and before that a solicitor practising in commercial law at Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks (now Allens Arthur Robinson). Belinda's DPhil research reflects her on-going interest in overlaps between commercial and family law, but since the completion of her DPhil her focus has increasingly been in the area of Family Law. She is the co-author, with Juliet Behrens of ANU, of a major new Family Law textbook Australian Family Law: The Contemporary Context, published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. 

Other positions Belinda has held include being a Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Family Studies in 2000, heading the Institute's 'Marriage and Family' research program. In this capacity, Belinda was the Institute's observer on the Federal Attorney-General's Family Law Council. She was the Law Faculty's Associate Dean (Research) from 2002 until June 2005. Her current professional activities include being a member of the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Family Law, an International Associate of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Griffith University Socio-Legal Research Centre.

• Family Law

Belinda is particularly interested in socio-legal research - that is, the use of social science research methodologies to examine legal questions. Her recent research has been in the areas of child protection, children's contact services, pre-nuptial agreements, and models of marriage underpinning matrimonial property law. She was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant 2008 to conduct the first detailed empirical investigation of the impact of recent Australian shared parenting reforms on financial settlements between separating parents.

Professor Fehlberg's current professional activities include being a member of the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Family Law, an International Associate of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Griffith University Socio-Legal Research Centre.