Richard A. Falk

Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) is an American human rights activist, academic and writer. He was a professor of international law at Princeton University. He is the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 volumes.

From 2008 to 2014, he was a United Nations special rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967".

Falk was born in New York City. He is Jewish. He is married to Hilal Elver.

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