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Richard Falk
Richard Falk is Albert G. professor of international law and practice emeritus at Princeton where he was a member of the faculty for 40 years. Since 2002, he has been associated with Global & International Studies at UCSB as a research professor. He is currently directing ‘Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy’, a grant-funded research project under the auspices of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies. He has also been associated with two projects that are jointly sponsored by the United Nations University in Tokyo and the Orfalea Center. The first is devoted to ‘Legality and Legitimacy in Global Politics’, which has resulted in a book Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs published by Oxford University Press, 2012. The second is entitled ‘The World in 2030’, which has held two workshops in Delhi, India, and will lead to an edited book publication. Falk was special rapporteur on occupied Palestine for the UN Human Rights Council beginning in 2008 and served on a panel of experts appointed by the president of the UN General Assembly, 2008–09. He is chair of the Board of Directors, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, an NGO located in Santa Barbara. He is also a member of the editorial board of several journals and magazines, including the American Journal of International Law, Third World Quarterly, Globalizations, The Nation and The Progressive. Formerly, he was, for many years, North American director of the World Order Models Project.
