“Professor Alan Boyle was among the most influential international lawyers of his generation. Perhaps best known for his pioneering work on international environmental law, Alan’s interests were far wider and he preferred to be considered a general international lawyer, albeit with a particular expertise in environmental matters.

“Alan Edward Boyle was born in Belfast on 28 March 1953, where he grew up with his parents and sister. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. While he would leave Northern Ireland after his schooling, he retained a deep interest in Northern Irish affairs throughout his life, contributing later in his legal career to debates about the Northern Ireland Protocol and the legality of the British government’s approach to this issue. This was just one of his contributions to UK constitutional debates of recent years, notably also writing, with James Crawford SC, a 2012 legal opinion for the UK government on the international legal aspects of Scottish independence.”

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