Tom Farer

Tom Farer, (born 1935) is an American academic, author and former president of the University of New Mexico.[1] Since ending his tenure at New Mexico in 1986, Farer served as dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver from 1996 to 2010. He is currently a university professor of international relations at the Josef Korbel School.

Tom Farer
13th President of the
University of New Mexico
In office
1985–1986
Preceded byJohn Perovich
Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies
In office
1996–2010
Succeeded byChristopher R. Hill
Personal details
Alma materHarvard Law School
Princeton University
ProfessionAcademic, lawyer
Websitewww.tomfarer.com

Academic career

Education

Farer earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.. He then received his juris doctorate from Harvard University's [[Harvard Law School|Law School] Magna cum laude and was Note Editor of the Law Review].[2] In his third year he was named clerk for Judge Learned Hand. Following law school and Judge Hand's death, he worked at the Department of Defense as special assistant to the General Counsel, former Harvard professor John McNaughton, and for Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Thereafter he served for a year as special assistant to the commanding general of the Somali National Police Force and taught criminal law and procedure at the Police Academy and unarmed self-defense to the riot police. Returning to the United States, he worked for a year for the Wall Street law firm of David, Polk and then joined the faculty of Columbia Law School. Since then he has taught law at Rutgers, Tulane, MIT, Harvard, and American University and international relations at Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge, IBEI in Barcelona and the University of Denver where he is University Professor and Dean Emeritus. He has served as President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS, President of the University of New Mexico, Senior Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment and the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson Institute, and a consultant to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. He has been Honorary Professor at Peking University. His last book was "Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy" (Oxford 2008). In January 2020 Cambridge University Press will publish his latest work "Migration and Integration: The Case for Liberalism with Borders." He is a member of The Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C. and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has an honorary doctorate from Panteion University in Athens, Greece.

Faculty positions

As an academic, Farer is considered an expert on international relations as well as international politics and law. He has previously held faculty positions at Cambridge University, American University, Tulane Law School, Harvard Law School, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University and Columbia Law School.[2]

Due to controversy surrounding his rapport with the University of New Mexico's Board of Regents, Farer served only one year as president before stepping down. He subsequently became a professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law.[1]

Bibliography
  • Financing African Development (1965)
  • Warclouds on the Horn of Africa (1976)
  • Toward a Humanitarian Foreign Policy: A Primer for Policy (1980)
  • The Grand Strategy of the United States in Latin America (1988)
  • U.S. Ends and Means in Central America (1988, co-author)
  • Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Western Hemisphere (1996)
  • Transnational Crime in the Americas (1999)
  • Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of Liberal Grand Strategy (2008)
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References
  1. "Tom Farer" (PDF). University of New Mexico Presidents. University of New Mexico. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  2. "Tom Farer Faculty Page". Josef Korbel School of International Studies. University of Denver. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
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