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43 Adel. L. Rev. 1 (2022)

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Rebecca  LaForgia* and Matthew  Stubbs**


             REMEMBERING JAMES CRAWFORD



                             I  INTRODUCTION
   his   issue of the Adelaide Law Review is dedicated to the memory of Judge
      James Richard Crawford AC SC FBA  (1948-2021). James was a brilliant jurist,
      an extraordinary legal scholar, a prescient law reformer, and - for generations
of law students - the doyen of international law, a generous and wise mentor.

This issue features a fitting tribute to James' influence on international legal
education in Australia in the article by Irene Baghoomians, Emily Crawford (one of
James' daughters) and Jacqueline Mowbray. Their article 'The Teaching of Public
International Law in Australian Law Schools: 2021 and Beyond' makes fascinating
reading for all who are interested in the learning of international law in Australia,
and provides a contemporary perspective on earlier works by two great international
lawyers of the Adelaide Law School -   James Crawford  and Ivan Shearer.1 This
piece speaks in a powerful way to James' intellectual legacy in the education of the
next generations of Australian international lawyers.

James' association with Adelaide Law  School was lifelong - he was  one of its
most distinguished graduates, one of its most brilliant academics,2 one of its most
generous supporters, and a former student editor, then academic editor and finally
member  of the Advisory Board ofthe Adelaide Law Review. There will be many well-
deserved academic tributes to James, touching on the great breadth and influence
of his scholarship. Our aim here is not to duplicate those important endeavours. In
dedicating this issue to him, we recall some brief personal remembrances of the
ways in which James  touched our professional lives and the wider intellectual life
of his alma mater. This is a record of matters we spoke of in the Sir John Salmond
Law  Library at the University of Adelaide in the presence of James' family at an
event to commemorate  James' extraordinary life on 25 June 2021.


*    Senior Lecturer, Adelaide Law School.
**   Associate Professor, Adelaide Law School.
     Ivan A Shearer, 'The Teaching of International Law in Australian Law Schools' (1983)
     9(1) Adelaide Law Review 61; JR Crawford, 'Teaching and Research in International
     Law in Australia' (1983) 10(1) Australian Year Book ofInternational Law 176.
2    See, eg: Ivan Shearer, 'James Crawford: The Early Years' in Christine Chinkin
     and Freya Baetens (eds), Sovereignty, Statehood and State Responsibility: Essays
     in Honour of James  Crawford (Cambridge University Press, 2015) xiii; Lesley
     Dingle, 'Biography: Judge James Crawford', Squire Law Library (Web Page)
     <https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archivejudge -james-crawford/
     biography-judge-james-crawford>.

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