[Peace-discuss] FW: [NYTr] International Law or Law of Jungle?

Tue Apr 6 13:13:35 CDT 2004

Francis A. Boyle
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Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fboyle at law.uiuc.edu

INTERNATIONAL LAW OR THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE. . .

Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After
September 11

A leading American expert discusses U.S. assistance to Iraq during the
Iran/Iraq war, U.S. conduct of the 1990 Gulf War, and the recent wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq in relation to their violation of International law:
the laws of neutrality, humanitarian law, and the laws of war - as well as
the law of the U.S. Constitution. The concluding chapter carries draft
articles for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

"In International legal terms, the Bush Jr. administration should be viewed
as constituting an ongoing criminal conspiracy under international criminal
law in violation of the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the
Nuremberg Principles, due to its formulation and undertaking of war policies
which are legally akin to those perpetrated by the Nazi regime in pre-World
War II Germany."

-Francis A. Boyle, Destroying World Order

Palestine, Palestinians and International Law

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the international legal
principles related to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination:
starting with the League of Nations awarding the Mandate for Palestine to
Britain after the First World War; through the partition of the Palestine
Mandate by the United Nations after the Second World War; to the Palestinian
Declaration of an Independent State of their own in 1988; to the diplomatic
recognition of the Palestinian State by about 130 other states; through the
United Nations granting the State of Palestine all the rights of a U.N.
Member State but the right to vote, etc.

During the past two decades, the author has provided the Leadership of the
Palestinian People with advice, counsel, and representation at all stages of
this process. The scholarly analyses that he used to back up this critical
work can be found in the pages of this book.

"Boyle's penetrating analyses of Israeli and American roles in the crisis
that has destabilized the Middle East for over fifty years are as cogent as
his criticism are fearless and his warnings prescient."

-Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence

Provides the intellectual tools needed to battle the nuclear adventurism of
the U.S. nuclear power elite, demonstrating how both the use and threatened
use of nuclear weapons is illegal under international law and accordingly,
criminal.

"Boyle's stirring little book traces the fault lines that may divide our
society as U.S. troops and weapons are deployed illegally: those who support
the legal system versus those who blindly issue and obey orders at their own
peril."

The Federal Lawyer, March/April 2003

"[A]n enormously valuable book. Any supporter of nuclear weapons would find
it very difficult to refute its arguments."

Frank Jackson, Editor, World Disarm!

"Boyle's damning post-9/11 legal analysis of U.S. Nuclear war policy and the
so-called "war on terrorism" is the best single book for nuclear resisters
to study if they intend to defend their own direct action under
international law."

-The Nuclear Resister, Sept. 2002

Francis A. Boyle

Francis A. Boyle's long, distinguished career has included: responsibility
for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American
implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention; and
representing the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina before the International
Court of Justice (1993-94). Boyle served as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian
Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations from 1991 to 1993; on the
Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992); and as a Consultant
to the American Friends Service Committee. Professor Boyle teaches
International Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign. Previous works
include: Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, The Future of
International Law and American Foreign Policy, and Foundations of World
Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations 1898-1921. He holds
a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science from
Harvard University.

TO ORDER:

Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After
September 11 0-932863-40X, $14.95, 192 pp., 2004

Palestine, Palestinians and International Law
0-932863-37-X, $14.95, 205 pp., 2003

The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence
0-932863-33-7, $14.95, 216 pp., 2002

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