Dr
Sharon ErbacherProfile page
Senior Lecturer in Tort Law, Education-focused
Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
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- Senior Lecturer in Tort Law, Education-focusedFaculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
- +61 3 522 72074 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
BIO
Sharon Erbacher is a Senior Lecturer at the Deakin Law
School. Sharon teaches Torts Law and Misleading Conduct and Economic Torts at
the Deakin Waterfront campus and off campus. She has previously taught an
elective unit on Restitution Law. Sharon has been the recipient of a number
of teaching awards at the School, Faculty and University level, including a
Deakin University Award for Teaching Excellence.
Her main research interests are Negligence Law, Defamation Law, Misleading
Conduct, Product Liability and Restitution Law. Sharon has published books in
Restitution Law and Negligence and Illegality and contributed three chapters
to Mendelson, New Law of Torts, on Defamation, Deceit and Injurious Falsehood.
She has co-authored the sixth (2018) and seventh (2022) editions of Clarke and Erbacher (formerly Corones and Clarke), Australian
Consumer Law: Commentary and Materials..
Sharon obtained Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Law Degrees from the
University of Queensland and a Masters of Laws from Cambridge University. She
completed a PhD through Deakin University on the topic 'Negligence and the
Wrongdoing Plaintiff: A Corrective Justice Analysis'. This has since been published
as a monograph with Hart Publishing (UK), entitled 'Negligence and
Illegality'.
Prior to joining Deakin, Sharon worked as an Associate to Justice Brennan in
the High Court of Australia and as an Associate to Justice Spender in the
Federal Court of Australia. She completed her Articles of Clerkship at
Freehill, Hollingdale and Page before commencing as a lecturer in the Law
Faculty at Griffith University.
School. Sharon teaches Torts Law and Misleading Conduct and Economic Torts at
the Deakin Waterfront campus and off campus. She has previously taught an
elective unit on Restitution Law. Sharon has been the recipient of a number
of teaching awards at the School, Faculty and University level, including a
Deakin University Award for Teaching Excellence.
Her main research interests are Negligence Law, Defamation Law, Misleading
Conduct, Product Liability and Restitution Law. Sharon has published books in
Restitution Law and Negligence and Illegality and contributed three chapters
to Mendelson, New Law of Torts, on Defamation, Deceit and Injurious Falsehood.
She has co-authored the sixth (2018) and seventh (2022) editions of Clarke and Erbacher (formerly Corones and Clarke), Australian
Consumer Law: Commentary and Materials..
Sharon obtained Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Law Degrees from the
University of Queensland and a Masters of Laws from Cambridge University. She
completed a PhD through Deakin University on the topic 'Negligence and the
Wrongdoing Plaintiff: A Corrective Justice Analysis'. This has since been published
as a monograph with Hart Publishing (UK), entitled 'Negligence and
Illegality'.
Prior to joining Deakin, Sharon worked as an Associate to Justice Brennan in
the High Court of Australia and as an Associate to Justice Spender in the
Federal Court of Australia. She completed her Articles of Clerkship at
Freehill, Hollingdale and Page before commencing as a lecturer in the Law
Faculty at Griffith University.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Senior Lecturer in Tort Law, Education-focusedDeakin University, Deakin Law School
DEGREES
- Doctor of PhilosophyDeakin University
- Master of LawsUniversity of Cambridge
- Bachelor of CommerceUniversity of Queensland
- Bachelor of Law(s)University of Queensland
FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)
- Private law and civil obligations
- Tort law
AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION
- Masters by Research and PhD supervision
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Business and Law
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE
- Deakin Law School