Francis Boyle

Francis A. Boyle is a professor at the University of Illinois law school, specializing in international law, the relationship between the U.S. Constitution and U.S. foreign policy, international humanitarian law, and biological warfare. He has written and lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on the relationship between international law and politics.

He is counsel to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to  the Palestinian Authority. He also represents two associations of citizens within Bosnia and has been instrumental in developing the indictment against Slobodan Milosevic for committing genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Prior to joining the faculty at the College of Law, he was a teaching fellow at Harvard and an associate at its Center for International Affairs. He also practiced tax and international tax with Bingham, Dana & Gould in Boston.

He also has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, as well as a consultant to the [[American Friends Services Committee, and on the Advisory Board for the Council for Responsible Genetics.

Other teaching includes:
 * U.S. State Department, Scholar-Diplomat Program, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs (1981).
 * Lecturer, Nuclear Weapons and International Law, 21st Senior Conference on Nuclear Deterrence, U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1983).
 * Lecture Tour of Libya (1985).
 * Lecture Tour of the Soviet Union on Nuclear Weapons and International Law for the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy and the Association of Soviet Lawyers (1986).

His eleventh book, Breaking All the Rules: Palestine, Iraq, Iran and the Case for Impeachment was recently published by Clarity Press. His Protesting Power: War, Resistance and Law (Rowman & Littlefield Inc. 2007) has been used successfully in  anti-war protest trials. In the September 2000 issue of the prestigious The International History Review, Professor Boyle's Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations (1898-1922) was proclaimed as "a major contribution to this reinterrogation of the past" and "required reading for historians, political scientists, international relations specialists, and policy-makers." That book was translated into Korean and published in Korea in 2003 by Pakyoungsa Press.

Checnya
Professor Boyle is Attorney of Record for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, conducting its legal affairs on a worldwide basis.

North America
Over his career, he has represented national and international bodies including the Blackfoot Nation (Canada), the Nation of Hawaii, and the Lakota Nation, as well as numerous individual death penalty and human rights cases.

Israel-Palestine Conflict
From 1991-92, Professor Boyle served as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations. H

Biological warfare
He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention, known as, that was approved unanimously by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. That story is told in his book Biowarfare and Terrorism (Clarity Press: 2005).

In 2001 he was selected to be the Dr. Irma M. Parhad Lecturer by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary in Canada. In 2007 he became the Bertrand Russell Peace Lecturer at McMaster University in Canada. Professor Boyle is listed in the current edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America.

Education

 * A.B., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1975, graduated in 3 years; Political Science. Phi Beta Kapa; winner as a Junior of the Sigma Xi Certificate of Merit and Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Scientific Research in Biology for 1971 for "The Differential Effects of Three Simulated Systems of Inbreeding on the Frequency of the tw Allele in Wild Populations of Mus Musculus on nomination of Richard C. Lewontin"
 * A.M., J.D., Ph.D. Harvard University