Alexandra Harland is an Accredited Family Law Specialist with 14 years family law experience. She is a senior duty solicitor with the Legal Aid Commission of NSW.  She was chair of the New South Wales Young Lawyers Family Law Committee for 3 years and a member of that Committee for 6 years. She has been a member of the NSW Law Society’s Family Issues Committee for 3 years.

Alexandra taught the undergraduate family law course at the University of Sydney from July to November 2008.  Alexandra has written and presented numerous papers and articles on a variety of family and de facto law topics.  She co-wrote the FLP 3 Practice and Procedure Conduct of Family Law Matters, Applied Law (Family Law), Masters Degree, College of Law 2007 and 2008.

Alexandra was the consultant editor for the CCH NSW De Facto Service from 2003 until January 2009 and contributed a chapter on de facto law in Australia for the first edition of the CCH Australian Master Family Law Guide in 2007.  She is also a consultant editor for Thomson’s Laws of Australia and has updated chapters on parenting, the Hague Convention against International Child Abduction and financial agreements. She is the lead author of Family Law Principles published in May 2011 by Thomson Reuters. She is working on a second book to be published by Thomson Reuters in 2012.