Prof James Crawford, SC, LLD, FBA

Career: Univ of Adelaide: lectr 1974-77, sr lectr 1977-82, reader 1982-83, prof of law (personal chair) 1983-86; cmmr Australian Law Reform Cmmn 1982-84 (pt/t cmmr 1984-90), Challis prof of int law Univ of Sydney 1986-92 (dean Faculty of Law 1990-92), Whewell prof of int law Univ of Cambridge 1992-, professorial fell Jesus Coll Cambridge 1992-, dir Lauterpacht Research Centre for Int Law 1997-2003 and 2006-; barr of High Court of Australia and of the Supreme Court of NSW (SC NSW 1997), memb of Matrix Chambers London; dir of studies Int Law Assoc London 1991-98; memb: Advsy Ctee on the Australian Judicial System The Constitutional Cmmn 1985-87, Institut de Droit Int 1991 (assoc 1985), UN Int Law Cmmn 1992-2001; judge Admin Tbnl OECD 1993-; hon bencher Gray's Inn 1991; FBA 2000

Books and Publications: The Creation of States in International Law (1981, Creative Scholarship award American Soc of Int Law, 2 edn 2006), The Rights of Peoples (ed, 1988), Australian Courts of Law (3 edn 1993, 4 edn 2004), The ILC's Articles on State Responsibility (2002)