Judge James Crawford

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Judge James Richard Crawford  1948 -2021

• 1948: 14th November born, Adelaide
• 1959-65: Brighton High School, Adelaide
• 1966-71: Adelaide University BA, LLB
• 1972-73: Oxford, University College
• 1974-76: Adelaide University, Lecturer
• 1977: LLD Oxford
• 1977-81: Adelaide University, Senior Lecturer
• 1979: The Creation of States in International Law, 1st Ed OUP
• 1979: Bar, High Ct Australia
• 1982-84: Memb Australian Law Reform Commission
• 1982: Australian Courts of Law, 1st Ed
• 1982: Adelaide University, Reader
• 1983-86: Adelaide University, Professor International Law
• 1986-92: Sydney University, Challis Professor of International Law
• 1987: Bar, NSW
• 1988: The Rights of Peoples
• 1989-1992: First ICJ Case, “Nauru v. Australia”
• 1990-92: Dean of Law Sydney University
• 1992-2015: Cambridge University, Whewell Professor of International Law
• 1995: The Law of the Sea in the Asia Pacific Region (With DR Rothwell) Nijhoff
• 1992-2001: Memb UN International Law Commission
• 1997-2001: Special Rapporteur on State Responsibility
• 1992-96: Board, then 1993 Chair, Library Sub-Syndicate
• 1997-2003: Director Lauterpacht Centre International Law
• 1999: Bar, Grays Inn
• 2000: The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring (with P Alston), CUP
• 2002: The International Law Commission’s Articles on State Responsibility, CUP
• 2002: International Law as an Open System
• 2003- : Curatorium of Hague Academy of Int Law
• 2003-06: Faculty Chairman
• 2004: LLD Cantab
• 2005: Foreign Investment Disputes: Cases Materials & Commentaries (+RD Bishop & WM Reisman), Kluwer,
• 2006-09: Director Lauterpacht Centre International Law
• 2006: The Creation of States in International Law, 2nd Ed, OUP
• 2010: The Law of International Responsibility (+Pellet & Olleson), OUP
• 2012: Cambridge Companion to International Law
• 2012: International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal (+ S Nouwen), Hart
• 2012: Brownlie’s Principles of International Law, 8th edn OUP
• 2013: State Responsibility: the general part, CUP
• 2013: Hague International Law Lectures
• 2014: Chance, Order, Change: the Course of International Law AIL pocket
• 2015- 2021 : International Court of Justice: Judge

Honours and prizes

• 1981: American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit
• 2007: Panglima Jasa Negara [Honour] (Malaysia)
• 2009: Cavaler, Ordinul National Servicio Credincios (Romania)
• 2009: Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award (Columbia Journal of Transnational Law)
• 2010: Nessim Habif World Prize for International Law (University of Geneva)
• 2012: Manley Hudson Medal (American Society of International Law)
• 2013: Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
• 2013: Chambers Lifetime Achievement Award