Belinfanti is an expert in the area of corporate law and board governance. Her current research and scholarship focuses on how insights from behavioral science can lead to better legal rules and corporate decision making in the executive compensation field. More generally, her scholarship explores how legal rules affect the behavior, culture and/or identity of individuals and the organizations and communities within which they exist, and relatedly how law should account for behavioral and cultural characteristics of individuals, organizations and/or the communities that it seeks to regulate.