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Professor of Law, A.B. University of Chicago; A.M., J.D., Ph.D. Harvard University. Professor Francis Boyle obtained a J.D. degree magna cum laude and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Harvard University. From 1976-78 he was a teaching fellow at Harvard and an associate at its Center for International Affairs. Presently professor, University of Illinois, College of Law. He has written and lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on the relationship between international law and politics. His book, Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, has been used successfully in numerous foreign policy protest trials. In 2000, President Aslan Maskhadov appointed Professor Boyle Attorney of Record for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria to conduct its legal affairs on a worldwide basis. In that capacity, Professor Boyle brought charges against the Russian Federation at the International Court of Justice for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention. Legal Adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization (from 1987) and the Provisional Government of the State of Palestine (from 1988) on the creation of the State of Palestine, its accession to the Geneva Conventions and Protocols, invocation of the Uniting for Peace Resolution, admission to the United Nations Organization, etc. Author, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, Pub. L. No. 101-298 (1990) (adopted unanimously by both Houses of U.S. Congress). Counsel to Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez on H. Res. 86, 102d Cong., 1st Sess. (1991) (impeaching President George Bush for Gulf War). Legal Adviser to the Republic of Lithuania under President Vytautas Landsbergis (1991-92). Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations (1991-93). General Agent for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Powers before the International Court of Justice by appointment of President Alija Izetbegovic (March 19, 1993 to January 12, 1994). He won two World Court Orders overwhelmingly in favor of Bosnia against the rump Yugoslavia to cease and desist from violating the 1948 Genocide Convention. Lawyer for President Alija Izetbegovic, Foreign Minister (later Prime Minister) Haris Silajdzic, and all the Members of the collective Bosnian Presidency, as well as the Leaders of the Bosnian Opposition Parties, during the Owen-Stoltenberg Negotiations in Geneva (1993). Consultant on Independence, Hawaiian Sovereignty Advisory Commission, State of Hawaii (1993). On 17 May 2000 President Aslan Maskhadov appointed him the Attorney of Record for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Powers in order to conduct their legal affairs. Acting pursuant to his instructions, on 1 August 2000 I sued the Russian Federation at the International Court of Justice for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention. The September 2000 issue of the prestigious The International History Review reviewed Professor Boyle's Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations (1898-1922), calling it "a major contribution to this reinterrogation of the past" and "required reading for historians, political scientists, international relations specialists, and policy-makers." Professor Boyle teaches public international law, international human rights law, jurisprudence, and a seminar on the constitutional law of U.S. foreign affairs. CV for Boyle on Wikipedia Francis A. Boyle became a TFF Associate in October 2002.
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