S. Michael Lynk

Michael Lynk is Professor Emeritus of Law, Western University, where he taught labour law, constitutional law and domestic and international human rights between 1999 and 2022. He is the co-author of Trade Union Law in Canada (Thomson Reuters) (with Peter Engelmann and Michael Mac Neil) and Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (Clarity Press) (with Richard Falk and John Dugard). In 2016, Professor Lynk was selected by the United Nations Human Rights Council as the 7th UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory. In this unpaid capacity, he submitted regular reports to the Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly on human rights trends in the OPT. He served in this position until 2022.