Francis Anthony Boyle (born 1950) is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. International law is the term commonly used for referring to the system of implicit and explicit agreements that bind together nation-states in adherence to recognized values and standards This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. He also received a Ph. D. in political science from Harvard University. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems
Between 1988 and 1992 Boyle was a member of the board of Amnesty International USA. Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a Western based international Non-governmental organization which defines its mission as "to Boyle also charged that Amnesty's staff had been infiltrated by US and UK security services (see Covert Action interview below) a claim hotly disputed by many in the human-rights community.
From 1991 to 1993, Boyle was a legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO) (منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية or Munazzamat al-Tahrir al-Filastiniyyah) is a political and paramilitary Boyle is currently a member of the Nobel Peace Prize for Governor George H. Ryan Committee. The Nobel Peace Prize ( Swedish, Danish and Nobels fredspris is one of five Nobel Prizes Bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor George Homer Ryan (born February 24 1934 in Maquoketa Iowa) was the Republican Governor of the U
Professor Boyle is a controversial figure at the University of Illinois. He advocated for warmer US relations with Libya in the 1990s, and speaks fondly of his interactions with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Libya ( ليبيا ar-Latn Lībiyā; Libyan vernacular: Lībya; Amazigh:) officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi 1 (معمر القذافي) (born 7 June 1942) also known as Colonel Gaddafi Professor Boyle has also made controversial comments about the Middle East, accusing Israel of committing "Nuremberg offenses" against the Palestinians, an allusion to the actions of Nazi Germany. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political military and economic leadership of Nazi Germany after Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers
Boyle has also taken a strong stand in favor of Hawaiian independence and against a University of Illinois "pub crawl" which celebrates Saint Patrick's Day days prior to March 17th. The Hawaiian sovereignty movement (ke ea Hawai‘i consists of organizations and individuals seeking some form of sovereignty for Hawai'i Saint Patrick's Day (Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig) colloquially St This "celebration" consists of excess drinking as well as increased vandalism on campus. Boyle argues that the latter is offensive to persons of Irish nationality. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty In the former he uses a resolution signed by former U. S. President Bill Clinton apologizing for U. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States S. involvement in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy as justification for Hawaiian independence. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the
In 2002, Boyle protested a speech by Ruth Wedgwood, a law professor performing consulting work for the Bush administration, by equating her advocacy of military tribunals in the War on Terror to kangaroo courts. A military tribunal is a kind of Military Court designed to try members of enemy forces during Wartime operating outside the scope of conventional The War on Terrorism (also known as the War on Terror) is the common term for the military political and legal, and ideological conflict and specifically for U A kangaroo court or kangaroo trial, sometimes likened to a Drumhead court-martial or Drumhead trial, is a sham Legal proceeding or Court He appeared with an individual dressed in an anthropomorphic kangaroo costume to underline this point. [1] More recently Boyle has been on the vanguard of movement to impeach U. Impeachment is the first of two stages in a specific process for a legislative body to forcibly remove a Government official S. President George W. Bush. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. He had previously called for the impeachment of former U. S. President Bill Clinton. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States
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External resources
- Dennis Bernstein's interview with Francis Boyle
- Francis Boyle's Faculty Webpage
- Francis Boyle's statement on Hawaiian Independence
- Francis Boyle's interview with Bill O'Reilly
- Francis Boyle discusses the Bill O'Reilly interview and the War in Afghanistan
- Tim Cavanaugh, 'The Long, Happy Life of America's anti-defamation industry'.
- Francis A. Boyle. Palestine, Palestinians and International Law, review of his book by Ghada Talhami, Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Summer, 2003
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