Crowe has been a consultant to the United States Agency for International Development of the Rule of Law/Global Rights Initiative, Central European University’s Research Scheme in Prague, the Open Society Institute’s Roma Cultural Initiative, and the DiploFoundation’s Roma Diplomacy Project. Over the past 20 years, he has served as an expert witness in the United States, Canada, and Israel on cases dealing principally with asylum and extradition issues. He also organized the Conference on International Law: War Crimes, Human Rights, and Immigration at Elon University’s School of Law in 2012. He took part in the Silberman Seminar for Law School Professors, The Impact and Legacy of the Holocaust on the Law, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. from June 4–15, 2007.
Crowe’s books have dealt with a variety of subjects ranging from the evolution of international criminal law, the history of national and international criminal tribunals, the Holocaust, 19th and 20th century China, international relations in Central and Eastern Europe, and the history of the Roma in Eastern Europe and Russia. selected Crowe’s The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008, Elie Wiesel told The New York Times that Crowe’s biography of Oskar Schindler, the Righteous Gentile made famous in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, added complexity to the film without “’even altering the story.’” The result, he continued, was that Oskar Schindler: The Untold Story of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List, “’made Schindler more human, and also more extraordinary.’” The book was later chosen as a selection of the History Book Club. The Washington Post called Crowe’s principal book on the Roma, A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia, “the most comprehensive and indispensable of its kind in English.” Ian Hancock said it was “remarkably thorough and compassionate,” while a reviewer in Ethnic and Racial Studies wrote that it was a “clearly first rate” study that was “impeccably researched, extremely informational and well written. Most importantly, Crowe’s volume fills an obvious and long-standing void in the literature.” It was also chosen as a selection of the History Book Club. In 2007, an updated, second edition of The History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia was published, with a new chapter on the history of the Roma in each country discussed in the first edition, plus the new states that had emerged from the former communist nations in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Crowe’s other books include:
War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History.
Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the 18th Century
Crimes of State, Past and Present: Government-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses
The Baltic States and the Great Powers, 1938-1940
The Gypsies of Eastern Europe
Books: Foreign Editions
Da tu-sha gen-yuan li-shi yu yubo Oskar Schindler: Prawdziwa historia Oskar Schindler: De biografie en het ware verhaal achter de “Schindlerlijst Oskar Schindler: Die Biografie Istoriya Tsigan Skhidnoi Evropi ta Rosii Gipushi no Rekishi Tohoh Roshia no Roma Minzoku
Current Scholarly Projects
He is also writing a biography of Raphael Lemkin and editing a book on the evolution of Soviet law and justice in the 1920s and 1930s, and its impact on the Soviet role at the Nuremberg IMT trial. He is also researching a biography on Pearl S. Buck.
Media
Articles on his books and research have appeared in The New York Times, Macleans, Pravda, the Times Literary Supplement, The International Jerusalem Post, Dziennik Polski, Pravo, Die Berliner Literaturkritik, Der Spiegel, Stuttgartner Zeitung, Der Taggespiegel, and Wprost, among others.