News Archive

Professor Shawn Boyne was interviewed by the television and radio broadcaster Voice of America for its “Legal Issues” program, which is broadcast throughout Asia. The interview took place on September 24.

Professor Boyne discussed the prosecution of the Vatican City's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski. Wesolowski was defrocked in June after the Vatican’s canon law court found him guilty of abuse. He now faces criminal charges of sexually abusing children. This is the first time a high-ranking Vatican official has ever faced such charges.

Professor Boyne is a former prosecuting attorney and practiced for several years as a defense attorney before pursuing her career in academia. She is a scholar of comparative law who has previously presented her work at Yale University, the University of Virginia, and Washington & Lee's School of Law, as well as in Austria, Germany, and England. Professor Boyne teaches a seminar in Comparative National Security Law at IU McKinney and serves as co-chair of the Global Crisis Leadership Forum. She is one of the founding members of the Comparative Law Professors blog. Her latest book, The German Prosecution Service: Guardians of the Law?, was published in 2013 by Springer Publishing.