Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University where he was an active member of the faculty for 40 years (1961-2001), Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London(2021), and co-Director of its Centre of Environmental Justice and Crime, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute. He directed 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 most recent book, written in collaboration with Hans von Sponeck is Liberating the UN: Realism with Hope; see also Power Shift (2017); Revisiting the Vietnam War (2017); and On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (2019); His book This Endangered Planet (1972) was selected by the journal Foreign Affairs as one of the six most influential books published in the last century to address global issues. In 2016 Falk published a book of poems under the title of Waiting for Rainbows.  His memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University as ‘the best book of 2021.’ He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times since 2008. He currently serves as President of the Gaza Tribunal Project