Marc Lebovitz Francis Boyle, a professor of Law at the University of Illinois, will be the Global Review speaker at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in Schroeder 138, not in the regular Global Review location.
Admission is free.
In honor of the anniversary of the University Declaration of Human Rights, Boyle will discuss Working Against the Death Penalty, covering why the death penalty is a violation of fundamental human rights and what can be done about it. Boyle, a J.D. and Ph.D. graduate of Harvard University, 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.