Rate My Professor Elizabeth Sheargold

Elizabeth Sheargold is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. 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. She completed her BA/LLB (Hons) and PhD at the University of Melbourne, and her LLM at Columbia University. 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.

Sheargold has authored or co-authored key publications such as Principles of International Trade and Investment Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, with Andrew D. Mitchell), A Climate Change Carve-Out for Investment Treaties (Journal of International Economic Law, 2023), International Investment Law and Public Health: The Need for Forward-Looking Reforms (Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2025), Trade Law and Effective Electronic Cigarette Regulation Design (Tobacco Control, 2025, with Genevieve Wilkinson), and The International Trade Law Implications of Regulation E-Cigarettes: Lessons from Tobacco Litigation (Fordham International Law Journal, 2024, with Genevieve Wilkinson). Her scholarship has been cited 245 times on Google Scholar. She is an affiliate of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, accepting PhD students, and contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals including good health and well-being, climate action, and peace, justice and strong institutions.