ProfessorShiri Krebs

Professor

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Professor
    Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 68921 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* Law and technology
* Drone warfare and AI-based military technologies
* International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
* Fact-Finding and knowledge production during armed conflicts
* Cognitive biases in legal decision-making
* Evidence

Knowledge Areas
* Law and technology
* Public International Law
* Evidence
* Conflict Resolution
* Human Rights
* Law and Society
* Empirical Research Methods for Legal Scholars
* International Security
* Counter-terrorism
* Law of Armed Conflict
* Cybersecurity law and policy

Selected Research Awards
• Selected as Visiting Legal Fellow, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia (2024-2025).
• Winner of the ‘Researcher of the Year’ Award, Lawyers’ Weekly Women in Law Awards (2022).
• Recipient of the David D. Caron Research Prize, American Society of International Law (2021).
• Elected Chair of the International Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict (2022-2025).
• Australian Legal Research Awards finalist, Article/Chapter (ECR) Category (2022).
• ‘New Voices in International Law’ recognition, American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2022).
• Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Awards: Mid-Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence (2022).
• Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Awards: Outstanding Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion (team-based), Deakin University (2021).
• Selected to the Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (Stanford University, 2021).
• Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Awards: Early Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence (2019).
• Christiana Shi Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship in International Studies (Stanford University, 2013-2016).
• Franklin Award for Best Paper in the Field of International Law (Stanford University, 2015).
• Selected to the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (2013).
• E. David Fishman Dissertation Award (2011-2015).
• Richard S. Goldsmith Award for Best Paper in the Field of Dispute Resolution, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (2012).
• Steven M. Block Civil Liberties Award (Stanford University, 2011).
• Dean’s Award for Extraordinary Junior Faculty Members (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007).
• Berenzon Award for extraordinary research achievements and social contribution (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004).

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Through the Drone Looking Glass - a study of drone warfare and the effects of drone vision on targeting and legal decision-making
    24 Oct 2024 - 24 Apr 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Shiri Krebs
    University of Hamburg - $36,650.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Socrates: Software Security with a focus on critical technologies.
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - C21-00267 - $120,978.00
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Regulating predictive technologies for preventive counterterrorism
    1 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Shiri Krebs
    ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - DE230101646 - $446,593.00
  • GRANT
    Grey Zones in Cyber Warefare.
    1 Apr 2023 - 31 Mar 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Krebs S,
    • Shahaf S
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - P25-00298 - $20,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Responsible Research and Innovation in Collaborative Cyber Security Projects.
    9 Mar 2022 - 30 Sep 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Krebs S,
    • Lamchek J
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - C25-00233 - $42,600.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Data Sharing: Clarity in Contracting
    13 Aug 2021 - 13 Mar 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Shiri Krebs
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - C25-00188 - $2,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Cyber Security Law and Policy
    1 Jul 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Shiri Krebs
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - $495,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Ownership of Data in Australia
    8 Apr 2020 - 31 Jul 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Shiri Krebs
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - CONTR2020/00886 - $10,000.00