Professor Boyne's Article Featured at Comparative Law Workshop
04/21/2016
Professor Shawn Boyne's article entitled, "German Prosecutors and the Rechtsstaat: Are German Prosecutors Accountable?" was one of seven papers discussed at the American Society of Comparative Law's Work-in-Progress Workshop which took place April 14-16 at the University of Illinois College of Law. The seven papers were selected from over fifty submissions. The annual conference is organized by several leading scholars in the field of comparative law including: Maximo Langer (UCLA), Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois), and Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton). The authors of the remaining papers included: Antonia Baraggia (University degli Studi di Milano), Wei Cui (University of British Columbia), Yuliya Guseva (Rutgers), Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow (Hebrew University), Mariana Pargendler (Escola de Direito-Brazil), and Bui Ngoc Son (National University of Singapore).
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.
