After completing a German undergraduate law degree at the University of Würzburg and a period in private legal practice, Cornelia Koch pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Queensland where she obtained a Master of Comparative Law and a Juris Doctor degree. She joined the Adelaide Law School at the University of Adelaide as an academic in 2002. Her research has been published in Europe, the USA and Australia. Cornelia is admitted to legal practice in Queenland and the ACT, but does not hold current practicing certificates.