Giovanna Shay, a visiting faculty member, is a professor of law at Western New England University School of Law. Shay received a B.A. from Pomona College, a M. Phil. from Cambridge University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She writes and teaches about criminal law and the legal regimes regulating mass incarceration. Prior to joining the Western New England faculty in 2007, 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. Shay is currently co-chair of the Corrections Committee of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section. In 2013, Shay is serving as the Secretary of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools. She returns to the Law School where she was a visiting faculty member in 2012. Shay has taught courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure – Adjudication, Gender and Criminal Law, Post Conviction Rights and Procedures, and Professional Responsibility.