Tom Farer

Tom Farer is Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver.  He is also the former President of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of the Organization of American States and of the University of New Mexico.  Additionally, Farer is Honorary Professor of Peking University and permanent Guest Professor of People's University and Director of the Center for China-United States Cooperation.  In 1993, Farer served as legal consultant to the UN operation in Somalia.   Within the U.S. Government Farer has served as special assistant to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.  He has published eleven books and over ninety articles concerning issues of international and comparative law, foreign policy, human rights and international institutions.  Farer serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Human rights Quarterly and most recently published Transnational Crime in the Americas.  Tom Farer received his J.D. from Harvard University.