A studiat dreptul și a obținut titlul de doctor în anul 1959 cu o lucrare intitulată ”Schuld in het Sowjet strafrecht”(=Vinovăția în dreptul penal sovietic actual) O fost profesor de drept esteuropean la universitatea din Leiden între 1968 și 1998. Între ani 1995 / 2000 a fost președintele Consiliului International pentru Studii Central și Est Europene,[1].
Este căsătorit cu o irlandeză și are trei fete.
Opera
The constitutions of the USSR and the union republics : analysis, texts, reports [Hrsg. F. J. M. Feldbrugge
Law in Medieval Russia, 2009
Russia, Europe, and the Rule of Law (Hrsg. F. Feldbrugge), 2007
Public Policy and Law in Russia: In Search of a Unified Legal and Political Space (Hrsg. mit Robert Sharlet)
Law in Transition, 2002
Human Rights in Russia and Eastern Europe (hrsg. mit William B. Simons), 2002
International and National Law in Russia and Eastern Europe (hrsg. mit Roger Clark und Stanislaw Pomorski), 2001
The Emancipation of Soviet Law (Hrsg.)
Russian Law
Law and the Gorbachev Era (hrsg. mit Donald D. Barry, Georg Brunner und George Ginsburgs)
Encyclopedia of Soviet law, Hrsg. Feldhoff, 2. Aufl. 1985
The distinctiveness of Soviet law : [selected papers from the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Washington, DC, 30 October - 4 November 1985] / Hrsg. F. J. M. Feldbrugge
Perspectives on Soviet law for the 1980s : selected papers from the 2. World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Sept. 30-Oct. 4 1980 / Hrsg. mit William B. Simons, The Hague [u.a.]: Nijhoff, 1982.
Samizdat and political dissent in the Soviet Union, Sijthoff, Leyden, 1975.
Soviet Criminal Law : general part / F. J. Feldbrugge. -Status juris: 1. Jan. 1964; Leyden: Sythoff, 1964
Simons, William (Hrsg): Private and civil law in the Russian Federation: essays in honor of F. J. M. Feldbrugge. Nijhoff, Leiden [u.a.], 2009.
Ginsburgs, George [Hrsg.]: The revival of private law in central and Eastern Europe : essays in honor of F. J. M. Feldbrugge. The Hague [u.a.], Nijhoff; 1996