Professor Mendlovitz joined the Rutgers faculty in 1956. He is the
founding director of the World Order Models Project and chair of the
International Steering Committee of Global Action to Prevent War. Global
Action is a transnational coalition of individuals, civil society
organizations, and states promoting a comprehensive political and legal
program which aims over the next three to four decades to drastically
reduce armed violence, war, internal armed conflict, and genocide. He
holds membership on various boards, including the Arms Control
Association, Global Education Associates, the Law and Humanities
Institute, and the America-Israel Council for Israeli Palestinian Peace.
He represents the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear
Arms at the United Nations and is a member of the Lindisfarne
Association, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Lawyers Committee on
Nuclear Armaments.
Professor Mendlovitz has written and spoken extensively on issues
relating to international law and to the promotion of a just world
order. His publications include 10 volumes, many in collaboration with professor Richard Falk, Princeton University. Recent articles include
"Defensive Security" in War or Health, with M. Datan (Zed
Books); "Basic U.S. Commitment to Defend South Vietnam War Was Unlawful
Under Both International and Constitutional Law," in The Real Lessons of the Vietnam War (Carolina
Academic Press); and "A UN Constabulary to Enforce the Law on Genocide
and Crimes Against Humanity," with J. Fousek, reprinted in The International Legal System in Quest of Equity and Universality (Cluwer Law International). His most recent books are Preferred Futures for the United Nations (Transnational Publishers) and A Reader on Second Assembly and Parliamentary Proposals (Center for UN Reform Education).
