A/Prof. Shiri Krebs

Shiri Krebs is an Associate Professor at Deakin University’s Law School, and Co-lead, Law and Policy Theme, at the Australian Government Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre. She is an affiliated scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and cooperation (CISAC) and the Chair of the international Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict.
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 international law and general law journals (e.g. the Harvard National Security Journal and the Melbourne University Law Review), and has been supported by a number of research grants. Her publications granted her several awards, including, most recently, the David D. Caron Prize (American Society of International Law, 2021), Vice-Chancellor’s Early Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence (Deakin University, 2019), the ‘New Voices in international Law’ recognition (American Society of International Law, 2016; 2022), and the Franklin Award in International Law (Stanford University, 2015). Dr 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.
Krebs 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)
• 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

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