Francis Boyle RIP

On Feb 2, 2025, at 5:46 AM, Mary Anne Grady Flores (via peaceandjustice Mailing List) <[email protected]> wrote:

Our dear friend and brother, Francis Boyle has left us. It was a shock to hear the news of his death on January 30th from a friend at the post office on Saturday. He was 74 years old.  

Francis tirelessly defended Palestinians in the World Court with Ramsey Clark. He worked this past year with senior South African attorneys working on the S.A. case proving Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Francis worked with Budour Hassan, co-author of the Amnesty International’s report (12/05/24) on Israel’s genocide called, “We Feel Like We Are Subhuman.”

Plowshares (anti-nuclear) activists and anti-killer drone activists called upon Francis to be our international law expert witness during trial. He was a formidable expert with a CV of 60 pages many times rejected by judges who shielded juries from the truth of domestic and international law broken by the use of US nuclear and drone weaponry. Francis told us not to rely on the Doomsday Clock. He warned us that it is much closer to midnight than the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists would have us believe. He had his finger of the world pulse, observing all machinations of grabs for global power, warning us of the perils of US nuclear domination.

He taught us that direct actions taken were to be understood as civil resistance upholding law versus civil disobedience which breaks law. He was a very patient teacher helping teenagers to the young at heart, 80-90-year-olds, as they prepared their statements or mounted their pro se (DYI) defense. He explained the linkage between domestic laws to international law. He described a book in Washington, D.C. called the Federal Rules Decision showing how those laws were linked by ratified US tresties and protocols. What a sweet man. He will be sorely missed by many. You can watch videos of Francis on YouTube.
There is much more to be said. Please share this news widely. I can see Francis having the heavenly reunion with Ramsey Clark, Phil and Dan Berrigan, and many more of the cloud of witnesses. Deo Gratias!!!

Dr. Francis Boyle Died Jan. 30th, 2025
American Hero Dies At 74  
DR. JOSEPH SANSONE
FEB 01, 2025
Sadly, it appears that Dr. Francis Boyle died on January 30th, 2025 at the age of 74. According to the News Gazette he died at 12:22 a.m. Thursday (Jan. 30, 2025) at Carle Foundation Hospital. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Evergreen Cremation Services, 314 Tiffany Court, Champaign. This also apparently has been corroborated by someone in contact with his brother on X.com
Dr. Boyle actually stated that the COVID 19 injections were bioweapons in 2020 before they even came out. As you are probably aware Dr. Boyle provided an affidavit stating that mRNA nanoparticle injections are bioweapons in my case. So many cowards still refuse to tell the truth about that. Among other things, Dr. Boyle was an advisor to National ARM. May he rest in peace.
Here is a brief highlight of his professional career from the University of Illinois college of Law where he was a law professor.
Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He received an AB (1971) in Political Science from the University of Chicago, then a JD degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and AM and PhD degrees in Political Science from Harvard University. He practiced tax and international tax with Bingham, Dana & Gould.
Professor Boyle serves as counsel to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to the Provisional Government of the Palestinian Authority. He also represents two associations of citizens within Bosnia and was involved in developing the indictment against Slobodan Milosević for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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. He has advised numerous international bodies in the areas of human rights, war crimes and genocide, nuclear policy, and bio-warfare. From 1991-92, he served as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations.
Professor Boyle served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, as a consultant to the American Friends Service Committee, and on the Advisory Board for the Council for Responsible Genetics. He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention, known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, that was approved unanimously by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
Education
AM, PhD Harvard University
JD Harvard Law School
AB University of Chicago
Areas of Expertise
Constitutional Law (U.S. Foreign Affairs)
Human Rights
Jurisprudence

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Mary Anne Grady Flores
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