Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies

Andrew Boyle is an attorney with experience in domestic and international human rights and rule of law. He is currently Senior Counsel at States United Democracy Center, where he works on accountability for democracy violators and good governance issues.  Andrew previously served as Counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program of the Brennan Center for Justice, where he focused on presidential emergency powers; as a fellow in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, where he worked on campaign finance reform; and was a judicial law clerk for a federal appellate judge.

Internationally, Andrew has worked investigating and prosecuting atrocity crimes at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office in The Hague, and at the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia, and he worked in the trial chambers of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He has also served as an expert consultant for the UN.

Andrew serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and is on the editorial board of the ASIL International Legal Materials journal. He has previously held fellowships at Harvard, Georgetown, and George Washington Law Schools, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He has also been a Practitioner in Residence at the Binghamton University Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention, has lectured on international criminal law to Ukrainian Prosecutors through the  Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, and served as an NGO Observer to the Guantanamo Military Commissions