Dr Sharon Erbacher

Sharon Erbacher is a Senior Lecturer and the LLB Course Director in 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 contributes three chapters to Mendelson, New Law of Torts, on Defamation, Deceit and Injurious Falsehood. She has co-authored the sixth edition of Clarke and Erbacher, Australian Consumer Law: Commentary and Materials (previously, Corones and Clarke, Australian Consumer Law: Commentary and Materials), published in 2018.

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 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.