James Crawford (lawyer)

James Richard Crawford AC , SC, FBA, LLD (born November 14, 1948 in Adelaide ) is an Australian lawyer who specializes in international law as a university professor, lawyer and judge . He held the Whewell Chair in International Law at Cambridge University and was a Fellow at the university's Jesus College , and was Director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law. Since February 2015 he has been a judge at the International Court of Justice .

education

James Crawford studied at the University of Adelaide , where he earned a BA major in Political Science and English History (1974) and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (1971). He first came into contact with international law while studying in Adelaide while lecturing with DP O'Connell , who was later appointed to the Chichele Chair in International Law at the University of Oxford . Crawford followed him to Oxford, where he did his PhD under the supervision of Ian Brownlie (1977).

Scientific career

Following his doctorate, he returned to Australia and taught constitutional and international law at the University of Adelaide, where he was appointed professor in 1983. In 1982 he followed a call from the Australian government and accepted a position within the Australian Law Reform Commission , which he held until 1984. He wrote a number of reports for the Australian government, including the recognition of common law of the Aborigines , the immunity of states and the reform of the law of the sea . In 1986 he accepted a call to the University of Sydney , where he took over the Challis professorship for international law; from 1990 to 1992 he was also dean of the law faculty.

In 1992 he returned to England and became Whewell Professor of International Law , while his PhD supervisor Ian Brownlie served as Chichele Professor of International Law at Oxford. From 1992 to 2001 he was also a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations , for which he acted as a special rapporteur on international legal responsibility from 1997 to 2001 . He was also instrumental in drafting the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court . Since 1993 he has also been a judge at the Administrative Court of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). His main focus is on constitutional law , the law of the sea , international arbitration and various aspects of human rights . Since 2013 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hague Academy for International Law , where he taught the General Course in International Law as part of the summer program in the same year.

In 1996 he took over the position of director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law at the University of Cambridge, which he held until 2003 and then again from 2006 to 2010. Marc Weller has been director of the research institute since 2010 . In November 2014 he was elected judge at the International Court of Justice ; his regular nine-year term began in February 2015.

Awards

James Crawford was made an Associate Member of the Institut de Droit International in 1985 and a Full Member in 1991. He was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 . In the same year he also received the title of Doctor of Law (LL.D.) from the University of Cambridge and also holds honorary doctorates from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Catholic Péter-Pázmány University in Budapest . In 2009, he received the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award from Columbia University's law school . A year later he was awarded the Nessim Habif World Prize of the University of Geneva and in 2012 the Manley O. Hudson Medal, the highest award of the American Society for International Law .

Books and other publications

• James Crawford (Ed.), Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law (OUP 2012).
• James Crawford & Martti Koskenniemi (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to International Law (CUP 2012).
• James Crawford, Alain Pellet & Simon Olleson (Eds.), The Law of International Responsibility (OUP 2010).
• James Crawford, The Creation of States in International Law (2nd edition, OUP 2006).
• James Crawford, R Doak Bishop & W Michael Reisman, Foreign Investment Disputes. Cases, Materials and Commentary (Kluwer 2005).
• James Crawford & Brian Opeskin, Australian Courts of Law (4th edition, OUP 2004).
• James Crawford, International Law as an Open System. Selected Essays (Cameron May 2002).
• James Crawford, The International Law Commission's Articles on State Responsibility: Introduction, Text and Commentaries (CUP 2002).
• James Crawford & Philip Alston, The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring (CUP 2000).
• James Crawford (Ed.), The Rights of Peoples (OUP 1988).
• James Crawford, The Creation of States in International Law (OUP 1979) (adaptation of his doctoral thesis).

In addition to these works, Crawford has been the editor of the British Yearbook of International Law since 1994 , and senior editor since Ian Brownlie retired in 2000. He is also co-editor of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law and the ICSID Reports . Between 2002 and 2005 he was a member of the World Trade Review's editorial board . He has been a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law since 2004 . He has published articles in, inter alia , International and Comparative Law Quarterly , the American Journal of International Law , the British Yearbook of International Law, and other major international law journals.

literature

• Crawford, James Richard. In: The International Who's Who 2004. 67th edition. Taylor & Francis, London 2003, ISBN 1-85743-217-7 , p. 370.

Web links

• Lauterpacht Center for International Law - Professor James Crawford (English, with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://italaw.com/documents/JamesCrawford.pdf
2. ↑ Who's Who in Public International Law 2007 (Crestwall Ltd, 2007)