Tom J. Farer

Tom Farer "is the Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights between 1976 and 1983, serving as its President between 1980 and 1982." 

"Within the United states Government, he has served as special assistant first to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and then to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He has taught law at American, Columbia, Rutgers, Tulane and Harvard Universities and international relations at Cambridge University, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow of the Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars." CV (pdf)


 * Member, Human Rights Watch Americas Advisory Committee
 * International Advisory Board, MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice
 * Advisory Editorial Board, Human Rights Quarterly