Robert Falco was a French jurist who lived from 1882 to 1960 and served as the alternate French judge at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Born in Paris to a Jewish family, he began working as a barrister in 1903 and earned his doctorate in law in 1907, later serving as a judge at the court of chancery and then on the Paris Court of Appeal, from which he was dismissed in 1940 because he was Jewish. In June 1945 he represented France in the negotiations that produced the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which established the procedures for the Nuremberg trials, and he sat there as alternate judge alongside Henri Donnedieu de Vabres. Reinstated to the French judiciary in 1947, he joined the Cour de Cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour; his unpublished trial notes were later published as the 2012 memoir Juge a Nuremberg.
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