The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law of Heidelberg are pleased to announce that the Max Planck – Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL) has been awarded to Emily Crawford, Professor at University of Sydney Law School.
The Prize was established in 2019 by the Max Planck Institute and the Lauterpacht Centre with the generous donation of the Max Planck Society’s Supporting Members. It is awarded biennially to a mid-career scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the study of international law and promises to continue to engage in substantial, innovative, and cutting-edge research. The Prize seeks to highlight existing research and to support the prize winner’s future work.
The Prize Committee, this year composed by Eyal Benvenisti, Armin von Bogdandy, Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, Matilda Gillis, Jannika Jahn, Maayan Menashe, Raphael Schäfer, and Silvia Steininger, has awarded the 2023 Prize to Emily Crawford. The Committee was greatly impressed by her scholarship in international humanitarian law characterized by innovativeness, rigor, and analytical depth. Professor Crawford has made significant theoretical contributions to international humanitarian law as well as to general international law. Her work is distinguished by her ability to combine historical and doctrinal methods to support practice-oriented research. Her scholarship, including three field-defining monographs in a decade, pioneered a multi-perspective analysis of the evolution of central norms and debates in international humanitarian law that is highly topical for the laws of war. She has been a significant proponent of soft law norms and codes of conduct to develop international law in times of crisis.
Emily Crawford is a Professor at the University of Sydney Law School, where she teaches and researches international law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. She has published widely in the field of international humanitarian law, including the three monographs The Treatment of Combatants and Insurgents under the Law of Armed Conflict (OUP 2010), Identifying the Enemy: Civilian Participation in Hostilities (OUP 2015), and Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian Law: Efficacy, Legitimacy and Legality (OUP 2021) and the textbook International Humanitarian Law (with Alison Pert, 2nd edition, CUP 2020). She is an associate of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney, and a co-editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Studies.
Contact: Alexandra Kemmerer, MPIL (kemmerer@mpil.de)