Professor Boyne Presents at Poynter Center
03/23/2016
Professor Shawn Boyne was invited to give a presentation at Indiana University’s Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics in American Institutions on March 22. Her presentation, which explored whether German prosecutors are democratically accountable, was part of the Center’s Spring Roundtable Series. This year the center has chosen the theme “The Future of Professional Ethics.”
The Poynter Center is an endowed ethics research center at Indiana University Bloomington and is dedicated to studying a broad range of ethical issues in American public life. Interdisciplinary in aim, the center uses the full resources of Indiana University to initiate research and teaching across traditional academic boundaries.
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.
