Richard A. Falk

Who is Richard A. Falk?

Richard Anderson Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 books, speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to two United Nations positions on the Palestinian territories.

In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967." He has been criticized by U.S. ambassador Susan Rice for recommending a boycott of companies that profit from Israeli settlements, and by Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon for suggesting there had been a cover-up of the 9/11 attacks.