Biography summary
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.
Career highlights
- 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).
Research interests
- Fact-Finding
- Cognitive biases in legal decision-making
- Law of armed conflict/IHL
- Evidence
- Law and technology
Affiliations
- 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.
Knowledge areas
- International Law
- Evidence
- Conflict Resolusion
- Human Rights
- Law and Society
- Empirical Research Methods for Legal Scholars
- International Security
- Counter-terrorism
- Law of Armed Conflict
Professional activities
Media appearances
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Research findings featured at the West Point Military Academy Blog (Articles of War): ‘Through the Drone Looking Glass’, 8 February 2022.
- Invited contribution to the International Law & International Legal Thought blog (Völkerrechtsblog): ‘Show Justice: IHL’s Data Practices and the Bureaucracy of Killing’, 2021.
- Invited contribution to the international GNET Insights blog: ‘Predictive Technologies in Preventive Counterterrorism’, 2021.
Publications
Can Rights Discourse Diminish Support for Displaced Persons?
S Krebs, K Cope
(2022), Vol. 20, pp. 279-292, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Drone-Cinema, Data Practices, and the Narrative of IHL
S Krebs
(2022), Vol. 82, pp. 309-332, Zeitschrift fur Auslandisches Offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht, Munich, Germany, C1
Shiri Krebs
(2021), pp. 1-19, International law's invisible frames : social cognition and knowledge production in international legal processes, Oxford, Eng., B1
Predictive Technologies and Opaque Epistemology in Counter-Terrorism Decision-Making
Shiri Krebs
(2021), pp. 199-221, 9/11 and the rise of global anti-terrorism law : how the UN Security Council rules the world, Cambridge, Eng., B1
Shiri Krebs, Shiri Krebs
(2021), pp. 245-266, Research Methods in International Law A Handbook, Cheltenham, Eng., B1
S Krebs
(2021), pp. 244-264, Research Methods in International Law: A Handbook, Cheltenham, Eng., B1
Work like a girl: Redressing gender inequity in academia through systemic solutions
K Allen, K Butler-Henderson, A Reupert, F Longmuir, I Finefter-Rosenbluh, E Berger, C Grove, A Heffernan, N Freeman, S Kewalramani, S Krebs, L Dsouza, G Mackie, D Chapman, M Fleer
(2021), Vol. 18, pp. 1-16, Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Wollongong, N.S.W., C1
Shiri Krebs
(2020), Vol. 74, pp. 304-329, Changing Actors in International Law, Leiden, The Netherlands, B1
All Is Fair in Law and War? Legal Cynicism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Shiri Krebs
(2020), pp. 235-259, Cynical International Law?, Berlin, Germany, B1
Law wars: experimental data on the impact of legal labels on wartime event beliefs
Shiri Krebs
(2020), Vol. 11, pp. 106-150, Harvard national security journal, Cambridge, Mass., C1
Data Availability and Transparency Bill Exposure Draft: Submission by Deakin University
Shiri Krebs
(2020), Geelong, Vic., A6
Fact and fiction in technology-driven military decision-making: evidence from the US and Israel
Shiri Krebs
(2020), pp. 53-56, CWAR 2019 : Proceedings of 18th Australian Cyber Warfare Conference 2019, Melbourne, Vic., E1
Bounded factuality: the targeted killing of Salah Shehadeh and the legal epistemology of risk
Shiri Krebs
(2019), pp. 423-455, Security and human rights, Oxford, Eng., B1
Just the facts: reimagining wartime investigations concerning attacks against NGOs
Shiri Krebs
(2019), Vol. 37, pp. 405-436, Berkeley journal of international law, Berkeley, Calif., C1
What determines the institutional legitimacy of the high court of australia?
S KREBS, I NIELSEN, R SMYTH
(2019), Vol. 43, pp. 605-653, Melbourne University Law Review, Carlton, Vic., C1
The impact of drone imaging on military decision-making: evidence from the US and Israel
Shiri Krebs
(2019), pp. 5-9, AiCE 2019 : Proceedings of 8th Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference, Melbourne, Vic., E1
Designing international fact-finding: facts, alternative facts, and national identities
S Krebs
(2018), Vol. 41, pp. 337-381, Fordham International Law Journal, New York, N.Y., C1
The legalization of truth in international fact finding
S Krebs
(2017), Vol. 18, pp. 83-163, Chicago Journal of International Law, United States, C1-1
S Krebs
(2017), Vol. 44, pp. 943-994, Florida State University law review, Tallahassee, Fla., C1
S Krebs
(2017), Vol. 44, pp. 943-994, Florida State University law review, Tallahassee, Fla., C1-1
'Don't ask, don't tell': secrecy, security, and oversight of targeted killing operations
S Krebs
(2015), Jerusalem, Israel, A6-1
The secret keepers: judges, security detentions, and secret evidence
S Krebs
(2014), pp. 179-206, Reasoning rights: comparative judicial engagement, Oxford, Eng., B1-1
Position Taken by the Israel Democracy Institute on the Draft Counter-Terrorism Bill
Yuval Shany
(2014), [Israel], A6-1
S Krebs
(2013), pp. 133-153, Secrecy, national security and the vindication of constitutional law, Cheltenham, Eng., B1-1
S Krebs
(2012), Vol. 45, pp. 639-703, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, United States, C1-1
From illiberal legislation to intolerant democracy
M Kremnitzer, S Krebs
(2011), Vol. 26, pp. 4-11, Israel Studies Review, United States, C1-1
Paper Pimps: Advertisements for Prostitution Services in Israel
Shiri Krebs
(2007), Tel Aviv, Israel, A6-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Regulating predictive technologies for preventive counterterrorism
Prof Shiri Krebs
ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- 2023: $139,102
Other Funding Sources
Ownership of Data in Australia
Prof Shiri Krebs
Cyber Security Research Centre Limited
- 2020: $10,000
Cyber Security Law and Policy
Prof Shiri Krebs
Cyber Security Research Centre Limited
- 2023: $41,250
- 2022: $238,396
Data Sharing: Clarity in Contracting
Prof Shiri Krebs
Cyber Security Research Centre Limited
- 2021: $2,000
Responsible Research and Innovation in Collaborative Cyber Security Projects.
Prof Shiri Krebs, Dr Jayson Lamchek
Cyber Security Research Centre Limited
- 2022: $35,171
Socrates: Software Security with a focus on critical technologies.
Dr Lei Pan, Dr Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Prof Robin Ram Mohan Doss, Dr Zubair Baig, Prof Jemal Abawajy, Prof Shiri Krebs, Dr Jayson Lamchek, Dr Shamsul Huda, Dr Muna Al-Hawawreh, Dr Naeem Syed, Dr Jack Li, Dr Ye Zhu, Dr Frank Jiang, A/Prof William Yeoh, Prof Chang-Tsun Li, Dr Lennon Chang, A/Prof Patrick Emerton, Dr Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Dr Van-Hau Trieu, Dr Yanjun Zhang, Dr Leo Zhang
Cyber Security Research Centre Limited
- 2023: $120,976
Grey Zones in Cyber Warefare.
Prof Shiri Krebs, Ms Shiran Shahaf
Cyber Security Research Centre Limited
- 2023: $15,000
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report