Prof Shiri Krebs

Shiri Krebs is a Professor of Law at Deakin University and Co-lead of the Law and Policy Theme at the Australian Government Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre. She is an affiliated scholar at Stanford University Center for International Security and cooperation (CISAC) and the Chair of the international Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict. She is currently an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow, as well as a Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow (Government of Germany), conducting a research project on the regulation of predictive technologies in preventive counterterrorism legal processes.

Krebs’ research focuses on behavioral approaches to international law, including the effects of predictive and visual technologies on military decision-making processes, at the intersection of law, science and technology.

Her scholarship has been published at leading law journals and has been supported by a number of research grants (including, most recently, from the ARC, the CSCRC and the Humboldt Foundation). Her recent international and national research awards include the David D. Caron Prize (American Society of International Law, 2021), the ‘Academic/Researcher of the Year’ Award (Australian Women in Law Awards, 2022), the Australian Legal Research Awards, Article/Chapter (ECR) Category (finalist, 2022), Vice-Chancellor’s Mid-Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence (Deakin University, 2022), the ‘New Voices in international Law’ recognition (American Society of International Law, 2016; 2022), and the Franklin Award in International Law (Stanford University, 2015).

Prof Krebs has taught in a number of law schools, including at Stanford University, University of Santa Clara, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she won the Dean’s award recognizing exceptional junior faculty members.

She earned her Doctorate and Master Degrees from Stanford Law School with Honours, as well as LL.B. and M.A., both magna cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• Chair, Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict (2022-present)
• Professor, Deakin Law School (2023-present)
• Associate Professor, Deakin Law School (2021-present)
• Senior Lecturer, Deakin Law School (2017-2020).
• Law and International Security Fellow, Stanford University (2012-2017).
• Teaching Scholar, Santa Clara University School of Law (2011-2012).
• Legal Advisor, Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court (2005-2010).

• Fact-Finding
• Cognitive biases in legal decision-making
• Law of armed conflict/IHL
• Evidence
• Law and technology

• Affiliate scholar, Stanford Center on International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University.
• Chair, Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict.
• Associate, Global Justice Lab, The Munk School of Public Affairs, University of Toronto.
• Member, American Society of International Law.
• Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of Internaitonal Law (ANZSIL).
• Member, Society for Empirical Legal Studies.
• Member, Law and Society Association.

• International Law
• Evidence
• Conflict Resolusion
• Human Rights
• Law and Society
• Empirical Research Methods for Legal Scholars
• International Security
• Counter-terrorism
• Law of Armed Conflict

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e0Kd7tMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

1. Interviewed on her work on Drones for two full episodes of the ARC-funded podcast ‘Law and the Future of War’, the University of Queensland, 2022.
2. Interviewed for ‘The Age’ on privacy concerns relating to DNA websites: Erin Pearson, ‘Can your DNA help decode Australia’s 750 unidentified human remains?’, The Age, 5 August 2022.
3. Interviewed on national news (Network Ten 5pm news) providing commentary on the security agreement with the US and UK (AUKUS) and the fallout with France, 18 September 2021.
4. Research findings featured at the West Point Military Academy Blog (Articles of War): ‘Through the Drone Looking Glass’, 8 February 2022.
5. Invited contribution to the International Law & International Legal Thought blog (Völkerrechtsblog): ‘Show Justice: IHL’s Data Practices and the Bureaucracy of Killing’, 2021.
6. Invited contribution to the international GNET Insights blog: ‘Predictive Technologies in Preventive Counterterrorism’, 2021.