He was formerly 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, is a member of the ICSID panel of arbitrators, author of numerous books, and co-editor of the British Yearbook of International Law.

James, along with Philippe Sands QC and Ralph Wilde, Faculty of Laws, University College of London, prepared an opinion on the question of the compatibility of Article 98(2) and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC Statute) for the Lawyers' Committee on Human Rights and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.

For details of James Crawford's case law practice, please see Notable Cases.

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