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James Crawford, SC is Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and Chair of the Faculty of Law and Fellow in Law, Jesus College, Cambridge. He was formerly Director of the Lauterpacht 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 has been a member of the United Nations International Law Commission ("ILC"), and in that capacity he was responsible for the ILC's Draft Statute for an International Criminal Court (1994) and the ILC's Articles on State responsibility (2001).

Crawford had been counsel before the International Court of Justice in cases Libya v. Chad (for Libya, lost), Croatia v. Serbia (for Croatia, case pending) and Georgia v. Russia (for Georgia, case pending).

His daughter, Emily Crawford, is a lecturer in International Humanitarian Law at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales.