Richard Falk is a professor emeritus at Princeton University where he was a faculty member for 40 years. He served 2008-2014 as UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books, mainly dealing with international relations and global justice. He was chair of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation until 2012. He maintains a blog and is a Research Fellow at the Orfalea Center of International and Global Studies of the University of California at Santa Barbara. He lives with his wife in Santa Barbara and Yalikavak.