The Journal is pleased to announce that Professor James Crawford has been awarded the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award for 2009. The award is given annually by the Journal to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of international law. Professor James Crawford has dedicated his career to the study and practice of international law and international arbitration.  He has appeared before the International Court of Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and International Criminal Court.  He has also been an arbitrator in ICSID and ad hoc arbitrations as well as in inter-state cases and is a member of the ICSID panel of arbitrators.  Professor James Crawford previously served as Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at Cambridge and as a member of the Australian Law Reform Commission.  He was also a member of the International Law Commission, and was responsible in that capacity for the ILC’s Draft Statute for an International Criminal Court (1994) and the ILC’s Articles on State Responsibility (2001). In addition to scholarly work on statehood, collective rights, investment law and international responsibility, he has appeared in more than 20 cases before the International Court of Justice, as well as before many other international tribunals. He has been much engaged as expert, counsel and arbitrator in international arbitration.  In particular he was involved as president/arbitrator/member of the ad hoc committee in the following cases: Mondev, Waste Management (No 2), SGS/Philippines, Vivendi (Annulment), MTD (Annulment), CMS (Annulment), MOX Plant and Eurotunnel. Previous recipients of the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award have included Judge Cançado Trindade, Richard N. Gardner, Louis Henkin, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, James A. Baker III, Hans Blix, Harold Koh, Ian Brownlie, Antonio Cassese and the Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor. Professor James Crawford received the award at a banquet on Monday, March 30, at Columbia Law School (435 W. 116th Street, in New York City). For information regarding the award, please contact Journal Public Affairs Editors Paul Kang (pyk2103@columbia.edu) or Luis Bacalao (lab2159@columbia.edu).