Thursday Mar 06, 2014

The Gary Null Show - Putting the Ukrainian crisis and coup in the context of international law - 03/06/14

Prof. Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois Law School who has a long career as an anti-war activist and upholder of human rights. He has served as a counsel to Bosnia and Herzegovina and was a legal advisor to the Palestinian delegation during the Middle East Peace negotiations from 1991 to 1993. Prof. Boyle has served on the board of directors of Amnesty International, and the Council for Responsible Genetics. He drafted the legislation for what became the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act in 1989 which was signed into law by the first Bush administration. He has been a strong opponent of the current Afghan and Iraq wars, and was an advocate for bringing international arrest warrants against George W Bush, Cheney and others in the Bush administration. Prof. Boyle has published numerous papers in law reviews and many books. His most recent publications are “Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three Decade Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution” and “The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence” co-written with Phillip Berrigan.

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