Dr. Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. From 2008 to 2014 he served as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.