Elizabeth Sheargold is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. Her research is primarily in the field of international economic law, with a particular interest in the intersection between international trade and investment agreements and environmental policy, including climate policy and natural resource management. In addition, she is currently working on a project funded by the Department of Defence titled Australia and Weaponised Trade: Threats and Responses.

Her previous academic roles include being a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, a research fellow with the Global Economic Law Network at the University of Melbourne and an Associate Director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. She has also practised law in the Melbourne office of Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters) and as a Legal Adviser to Judge O. Thomas Johnson at the Iran – United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. She completed her BA/LLB (Hons) and PhD at the University of Melbourne, and her LLM at Columbia University.