Michael Lynk is the former United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, from 2016 to 2022. He taught in the Faculty of Law at Western University in Ontario from 1999 to 2022. He is, most recently, the co-author of "Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations," with Richard Falk and John Dugard.
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