Professor Sharp is a leading scholar in law and humanities research. Her research based in cultural legal studies, focuses on interdisciplinary explorations of law as it is constructed in the public imagination through popular texts. Prof Sharp has nearly 30 years experience conducting interdisciplinary qualitative expertise in researching the interaction between individuals, communities, and legal processes (both formal and informal). Drawing on cultural studies, linguistic theory, psychology, and legal theory to interrogate public interaction with the law, over the last decade her focus has been on the public use of social media as forms of alternative legalities. This was illustrated in her 2022 book: Hashtag Jurisprudence: Terror and Legality on Twitter (Edward Elgar, 2022).

Prof Sharp is currently researching social media discourses surrounding violence against women as a CI of an ARC Discovery Projecy Grant (DP250102216): Voices, Listening and Law and Policy Reform on Violence Against Women 2026-2028. 

She is currently serving as Acting Dean of the School of Law; and is also the Director of the Legal Intersections Research Centre. In 2015, Cassandra was the recipient of a national OLT Citation for 'Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning' as part of the First Year Law Integration Team