Georgina Dimopoulos

Associate Professor Georgina Dimopoulos

BA(MELB), LLB(MELB)(Hons), PhD(MELB)

Georgina Dimopoulos is an Associate Professor of Law and a Research Associate of the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University. She is one of Australia’s leading socio-legal scholars on children’s rights and participation in family law. Her research across family law, children's rights and family violence aims to strengthen children’s meaningful, safe participation in decision-making processes.

She has successfully led research projects that implement ethical, innovative co-research methodologies with children and young people as lived experience experts, in collaboration with industry partners. She was admitted to legal practice in 2010 and practised at Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters). She has worked as a Senior Associate to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, a Senior Legal Policy Officer at the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety, and a Research Fellow in the Family Law, Family Violence and Elder Abuse team at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. She has also been engaged as a legal consultant to the Victorian Family Law Pathways Network and Women with Disabilities Victoria. She holds a PhD in Law, a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications), from the University of Melbourne.