Emily Crawford is a Professor at the University of Sydney Law School, where she teaches and researches in international law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

She has published widely in the field of international humanitarian law, including three monographs: The Treatment of Combatants and Insurgents under the Law of Armed Conflict (2010), Identifying the Enemy: Civilian Participation in Hostilities (2015), and Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian Law (2021). She is co-editor of the textbook Public International Law (with Alison Pert and Ben Saul, Cambridge, 2023). She is also a co-editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Studies.

In 2023 Emily was awarded the prestigious Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the study of international law.