Giovanna E. Shay

Professor of Law

EDUCATION

B.A., Pomona College
M. Phil., Cambridge University
J.D., Yale Law School

COURSES TAUGHT

Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure - Adjudication
Gender & Criminal Law
Post Conviction Rights & Procedures
Professional Responsibility

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: gshay@law.wne.edu
Phone: 413-796-2279
Office: 203

GENERAL INFORMATION

Giovanna Shay writes and teaches about criminal law and the legal regimes regulating mass incarceration. Prior to joining the faculty in 2007, Professor Shay was a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow at Yale Law School. She also served as a Staff Attorney at the Public Defender Service for D.C., and was a Soros Justice Fellow at the ACLU National Prison Project. From 1997-98, she served as a law clerk at the Connecticut Supreme Court. Professor Shay is currently Co-Chair of the Corrections Committee of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section. In 2013, Professor Shay is serving as the Secretary of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Giovanna Shay, [Including But Not Limited To] Violence Against Women , 42.4 SW. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2013) (invited symposium contribution).

Giovanna Shay, The New State Postconviction , 46 AKRON L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2013) (invited symposium contribution).

Giovanna Shay, Inside-Out as Law School Pedagogy, 62 J. LEGAL EDUC. 207 (2012). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay, Symposium: Radical Nemesis: Re-Envisioning Ivan Illichs Theories on Social Institutions: Illich (Via Cayley) on Prisons, 34 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 351 (2012). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay, Exhausted, 24 FED. SENT'G REP. 287 (2012). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay & J. Kelly Strader, Queer (In)Justice: Mapping New Gay (Scholarly) Agendas, 102 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 171 (2012) (reviewing JOEY L. MOGUL et al., QUEER (IN)JUSTICE (2011)). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay, Response, One Market We Do Not Need, 160 U. PA. L. REV. PENNumbra 319 (2012). SSRN Digital Commons

Margaret Colgate Love & Giovanna Shay, Incarceration in the United States: Issues in America's Jails and Prisons: Gender & Sexuality in the ABA Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners, 38 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 1216 (2012). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay, Double-Edged Paring Knives Human Rights Dilemmas for Special Populations, HUM. RTS., Summer 2011, at 17. SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay, Similarly Situated, 18 GEO. MASON L. REV. 581 (2011). SSRN Digital Commons

Jennifer Levi & Giovanna Shay, The Dangers of Reform, WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, July/Aug. 2012, at 30 (2012) (reviewing DEAN SPADE, NORMAL LIFE: ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLENCE, CRITICAL TRANS POLITICS, AND THE LIMITS OF LAW (2011)). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay, Ad Law Incarcerated, 14 BERKELEY J. CRIM. L. 329 (2009). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay, What We Can Learn About Appeals From Mr. Tillman's Case: More Lessons From Another DNA Exoneration, 77 U. CIN. L. REV. 1499 (2009). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay, 2009 Survey of Books Related to Women and the Law: Review: Locked Up, Overlooked: Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, 29 PACE L. REV. 377 (2009). SSRN Digital Commons

Margo Schlanger & Giovanna Shay , Symposium: Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Litigating Under the Eighth Amendment: Preserving the Rule of Law in America's Jails and Prisons: The Case for Amending the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 11 U. PA J. CONST. L. 139 (2008). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay & Christopher N. Lasch, Initiating a New Constitutional Dialogue: The Increased Importance Under AEDPA of Seeking Certiorari From Judgments of State Courts, 50 WM. & MARY L. REV. 211 (2008). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay and Johanna Kalb, More Stories of Jurisdiction-Stripping and Executive Power: Interpreting the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 29 CARDOZO L. REV. 291 (2007). SSRN Digital Commons

Timothy P. O'Toole and Giovanna Shay, Manson v. Brathwaite Revisited: Towards a New Rule of Decision for Due Process Challenges to Eyewitness Identification Procedures, 41 VAL. U.L. REV. 109 (2006). SSRN Digital Commons

Giovanna Shay and Mothers for Justice, The Phenomenal Women of Mothers for Justice, 8 YALE J.L. & FEMINISM 193 (1996).