Richard Falk

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law at Queen Mary University London, and research associate at the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He directs the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director the North American group in the World Order Models Project. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His recent books include On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament and On Public Imagination: A Political & Ethical Imperative, edited with Victor Faessel and Michael Curtin. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance; Explorations at the Edge of Time; Revolutionaries and Functionaries; The Promise of World Order; Indefensible Weapons; A Study of Future Worlds, and This Endangered Planet.