Professor Richard Falk, Yale Law School, LLB; Harvard Law School, SJD

Profile

Richard Falk has been working with Penny Green and others at Queen Mary on a project to establish a Centre of Climate Justice and Ecocide Prevention, as well as teaching classes online in conjunction with Tom MacManus’s courses. When in residence during February 2020 he also participated in public events, taught a seminar session for graduate students, and delivered two public lectures.

Additionally, he participated in an academic conference at LSE on the basis of his Queen Mary affiliation, and advised students informally.

Research

I have several research project that are in the process of completion:

• A collaborative book devoted to strengthening the United Nations
• A collaborative book on the role of Special Rapporteurs for Occupied Palestine working under the authority of the UN Human Rights Council
• A monograph on global crimes based on a public lecture delivered at Queen Mary, and developed further in an article published in Journal of State Crime

Works in progress

• Assorted projects following from the publication of my political memoir, PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: LIFE OF A CITIZEN PILGRIM, published in 2021.

Publications

• PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: LIFE OF A CITIZEN PILGRIM, Clarity Press, 2021
• Co-edited On Public Imagination: A Political and Ethical Imperative, Routledge, 2019

Public Engagement

• Chair, Board of Trustees, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
• Member, Board of Directors, Just World Education
• Senior Vice President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• Senior Academic Advisor, Cambridge Centre of Palestine Studies

Related news

• Queen Mary launches new Centre for Climate Crime and Justice
  9 November 2021