Shawn Boyne Associate Professor of Law Dean's Fellow Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 331 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 278-4781 E-Mail: smboyne@iupui.edu

Education

B.A. (cum laude), 1980,Cornell University;M.B.A, 1985, University of Minnesota;J.D., 1991, University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law;M.A., 2002, Ph.D., 2007, University of Wisconsin;LL.M., 2008, Justus-Liebig-Universität (Giessen, Germany)

Courses

evidence, criminal law, criminal procedure

Bio

Shawn Boyne joined the faculty in the summer of 2008 as associate professor of law, teaching evidence, criminal law, and criminal procedure. Prior to joining IU she was a DAAD Post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, as well as a graduate fellow with the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She has also been a visiting fellow with the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies.

Early in her career, Professor Boyne served as a senior trial prosecutor for the State of New Mexico, specializing in the prosecution of child sexual abuse and domestic violence cases. She worked for several years as a defense attorney and served on the boards of several non-profit organizations dedicated to protecting the rights of children. As a law student, she served on the staff of the Southern California Law Review and was the co-founder of the Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies. She received the Warren J. Ferguson Award for the best essay on social justice for her early research that examined the conditions of incarceration of HIV-positive women in the California prison system.

Professor Boyne’s research interests span the intersection of the fields of criminal law, politics, and culture. Her recent scholarship examines the tension between civil rights and national security in Germany and Europe. During the past five years, she has presented papers at the University of Virginia School of Law, Temple University’s Beasley School of Law and also at conferences in the United States, Germany and Austria. She is currently working on a book project that uses ethnographic research to probe the degree of prosecutorial discretion in Germany.

Professor Boyne holds a B.A. (cum laude) from Cornell University, an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota, a J.D. from the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, and an LL.M. from Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen, Germany.

Publications

Books and Chapters

The Criminalization of Speech in an Age of Terror: Casting a Wide Net for Evildoers, in RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND TORTURE: PERSPECTIVES ON EVIL, LAW AND THE STATE (John Parry & Welat Zeydanlioglu eds.) Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press (2009)


Law Review and Journal Articles

"Free Speech, Terrorism, and European Security: Defining and Defending the Political Community," __ Pace Law Rev. ___ (Winter 2010).

The Tension between Politics and Justice: German Courts and the 9/11 Suspect Cases, 14 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 543 (2005).

Law, Terrorism & Social Movements: How Politics has Shaped Germany's Anti-Terrorism Legislation, 12 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 41 (Summer 2004).

The Future of Liberal Democracies in a Time of Terror, 11 Tulsa J. Comp & Int'l Law 111 (Fall 2003).

Death in the Desert: A New Look at the Involuntary Intoxication Defense, 32 N.M. L. Rev. 243 (co-authored with Gary C. Mitchell)(2002).


Essays and Reports

Preserving the Role of Law in a Time of Terror: Germany's Response to Terrorism, in LAW VS. WAR: COMPETING APPROACHES TO FIGHTING TERRORISM. U.S. Army Strategic Studies Inst. (eds., pp. 17-21 (2005).


Book Reviews

Review of INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE RUSSIAN LEGAL SYSTEM by Boris Leonidovich Zimnenko, 18 Law & Politics Book Review 15 (2008).


Other Publications

Editorial, "Pursuit of Convictions puts Justice in Jeopardy," Indianapolis Star, Monday, April 13, 2009.

Note, Women in Prison with AIDS: An Assault on the Constitution? 64 So.Cal. L.Rev. 741 (1991).


Work in Progress

"The Many Faces of Objectivity: The Role of the Prosecutor in German Rape Prosecutions"