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Professor George Edwards appears on an episode of the second season of the television program, Pacific Island Food Revolution. The filming took place in Suva, Fiji, on September 19.

The show was created by chef Robert Oliver of New Zealand, who aims to promote more healthful food consumption and eating by returning to traditional South Pacific cuisine. Traditional foods have been pushed aside in local diet, replaced by low value sugary and processed foods -- junk food. Less healthful items, such as dried noodles, are being imported, displacing locally grown more healthful traditional food choices. This has led to increases in instances of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, strokes, the stunting of children's growth, and cancer. Professor Edwards collaborated with Oliver on a series of lectures on the topic. In the photo, Professor Edwards is second from right. The program airs in about two dozen countries around the Pacific.

“The Pacific Island Food Revolution is a show that combines education and entertainment to explore critically important food issues, such as how good food helps prevent non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, stunting, cancer, and other diseases that are rampant in the Pacific and other areas of the world,” Professor Edwards said. He has been consulting, providing insights on international law issues related to climate change, biodiversity, and human rights law.

Professor Edwards is a professor of international law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where he is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law. He founded the Program in International Human Rights Law, to which the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 2011 granted Special Consultative Status. He has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law (United Kingdom) and Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Law (Thailand), and was a Fulbright Professor in Peru, South America. He has lectured in dozens of countries at U.S. Embassies, Consulates and other institutions on various topics, including international students coming to the U.S. to study law. His books and law articles are widely disseminated in the U.S. and overseas. He and his students have been actively involved on international criminal law cases pending before United Nations war crimes tribunals, the U.S. Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and domestic courts of various other countries. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and of the Harvard International & Comparative Law Journal.