Ben Crawford (JD '24)

Ben Crawford works as in-house counsel for Tenstreet. He is the chairperson and founder of the Clara Barton Commission for the American Red Cross IHL Program, and an LL.M. candidate at Georgetown University Law Center pursuing his Master of Laws in National Security Law with a specialization in International Human Rights Law. He also serves on the War Crimes Research Office Alumni Council here at the Washington College of Law, as well as the DEI Working Group for the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and is the founder and co-chair of ASIL's LGBTQIA+ Persons in International Law interest group.

Ben has previously worked as the Arthur C. Helton Fellow for Watchlist on Children in Armed Conflict, a legal fellow for the American Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Program, an Atrocity Prevention intern for the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Conflict & Stabilization Operations, a legal intern for Geneva Call's Office of Policy, Programmes, and Legal, and a legal intern for the Office of General Counsel at Families Against Mandatory Minimums. Ben also served on the Kitchen for the 47th Jean-Pictet Competition and will serve in the Kitchen at the 50th Jean-Pictet Competition.

While in law school, Ben participated in the Summer Law Program in the Hague, the International Law Commission Experiential Opportunity, the Kovler Project Against Torture, and the Criminal Justice Clinic's Prosecution section. Ben was a seminfinalist at the 10th Clara Barton Competition, a competitor at the 40th Jean-Pictet Competition, and a coach at the 43rd Jean-Pictet Competition.

He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. Ben graduated with honors from American University Washington College of Law in 2024 and with honors from Villanova University in 2021.