Tom J. Farer
United States | Professor of International Relations, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
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Tom J. Farer is a professor of international relations at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and was the former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the University of New Mexico. Prior to the University of Denver, Farer has taught law at Columbia, Harvard, Tulane, Rutgers and American University and foreign policy at the School of International Service (SIS) at American University, the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and Princeton. Farer was special assistant to the commander of the Somali National Police, instructor of law and unarmed self-defense at the National Police Academy (1963-64), the general counsel of the Department of Defense (1962-63), and the assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs (1976-76). Farer is a senior fellow at both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a fellow at the Smithsonian’s Wilson Center.
Other positions held in the past include legal advisor to the chief of UN operations in Somalia (1993) and the dean of the Josef Korbel School (1996-2010). He graduated magnum cum laude from both Princeton University and Harvard Law School and holds an honorary doctorate of International Relations from Panteion University (Athens). Farer is an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Farer was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
