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Francis Boyle

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Francis Anthony Boyle, is a professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He also received a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

Between 1988 and 1992 Boyle was a member of the board of Amnesty International USA. He threatened to sue Amnesty for what he perceived as bias in its coverage of abuses against Palestinians' human rights; he has since been a critic of the organization. Boyle also charged that Amnesty's staff had been infiltraded by US and UK security services. (See Covert Action intervew below.)

From 1991 to 1993, Boyle was a legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Boyle is currently Attorney of Record for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and a member of the Nobel Peace Prize For Governor George H. Ryan Committee.

Professor Boyle is a controversial figure at the University of Illinois. He worked to prevent a war between the US and Libya in the 1990s, and speaks fondly of his interactions with Mummar Qadaffi. Professor Boyle has taken a strong stand against the actions taken by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq following the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Boyle keeps a low profile on campus, deleting his photograph from the faculty directory, and removing the nameplate from his office, after allegedly receiving death threats from Serbian terrorists following his appearance as counsel representing Bosnia-Herzegovina in the genocide trial against Serbia and Montenegro. He nevertheless maintains a highly visible public profile for a law professor, making appearances on such interview shows as Fox's The O'Reilly Factor and Moneyline with Lou Dobbs.

Boyle is a United States citizen but also holds honorary citizenship of Bosnia-Herzegovina which he received in 1993 while he was an adviser to Bosnian war-time president Alija Izetbegovic.

Boyle has also taken a strong stand in favor of Hawai'ian independence and against a University of Illinois "pub crawl" that occurs on St. Patrick's Day, arguing that the latter is offensive to persons of Irish nationality. In the former he uses a resolution signed by former U.S. President William Clinton apologizing for U.S. involvement in the overthrow of the Hawai'ian monarchy as justification for Hawai'ian independence. In the latter, he filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, claiming that he had to endure a "hostile work environment." (See 'Reason' article, below.)

In 2002, Professor Boyle protested a speech by Ruth Wedgewood (a law professor performing consulting work for the George W. Bush Administration,) by equating her advocacy of military tribunals in the War on Terror to kangaroo courts.

More recently Professor Boyle has been on the vanguard of movement to impeach president George W. Bush.


External resources

  • Dennis Bernstein's interview with Prof. Francis Boyle, CAQ, Summer 2002. Boyle, a former AI-USA board member, threatened to sue AI-USA over its alleged biased coverage.
  • Boyle's Faculty webpage: [1]
  • Boyle's statement on Hawai'ian independence (incl. picture): [2]

[3]

  • Boyle discusses the Bill O'Reilly interview and the War in Afghanistan:

http://www.mediamonitors.net/francis21.html

  • Discussion of Boyle's opposition to the St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl:
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