Professor James Crawford SC

Called 1987
James Crawford
 
James is Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge. He is also Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, also at Cambridge. Before moving to Cambridge in 1992 he was a Member of the Australian Law Reform Commission; from 1992 he was a member of the International Law Commission, and was responsible in that capacity for the ILC’s Draft Statute for an International Criminal Court (1994) and the ILC’s Articles on State Responsibility (2001).

James has an extensive practice in international law and international arbitration, appearing before the ICJ, ITLOS, ICSID and ICC tribunals. He has been an arbitrator in ICSID and ad hoc arbitrations as well as in inter-state cases. He is a member of the ICSID panel of arbitrators, author of numerous books and Senior Editor of the British Yearbook of International Law.