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IU McKinney Professors Shawn Boyne, Emily Michiko Morris, and Xuan-Thao Nguyen were recently selected as High-end Foreign Experts by the State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs in China. All three professors will be teaching and conducting research at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law. Professors Nguyen and Morris will be involved in research and teaching in the area of intellectual property law. Professor Boyne will be involved in conducting global crisis simulations with Chinese students and teaching criminal law. All three are taking part in the effort at the end of the Spring 2015 semester.

China’s recruitment program for high-end foreign experts is aimed at foreign specialists who come to work in China for a short time. The experts are nominated by the president of a Chinese university in a specific field; applicants are evaluated by a selection committee in Beijing. The goal is to recruit scientists, experts in natural science and technology, humanities, and social science, and internationalized innovative teams that are capable of conducting critical research and promoting new disciplines.

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.

Professor Morris is an associate professor of law at IU McKinney. She teaches patent law, copyright law, and intellectual property law. Her research and teaching interests include patent law, health law and bioethics, Japanese law, and law and economic analysis.

Professor Nguyen, who holds the Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law, is the director of the IU McKinney Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation. She is an internationally recognized legal scholar, known for her expertise in the intersections of intellectual property, secured transactions, bankruptcy, licensing, and taxation.