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Valena Beety

Faculty bibliography for Professor Beety

Editorials & Commentaries

Valena Beety

Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law


An Introduction to the 2023 Innocence Project Just Data Symposium, WRONGFUL CONVICTION LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2024).

Remarks on MANIFESTING JUSTICE: WRONGFULLY CONVICTED WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR RIGHTS (with Amber Baylor & Susan Sturm), 43 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF GENDER AND LAW 134 (2022-2023). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Keynote Address for "Innocent Behind Bars: A Symposium on Over-Criminalization, 17 LAW JOURNAL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 3 (2023). 

Time to ACT UP in the Wake of Dobbs (with Jennifer Oliva), SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER (June 26, 2022). 

The Texas Courts Have Spared Melissa Lucio’s Life. Now She Can Prove Her Innocence, USA TODAY (Apr. 22, 2022).

We All Lose if Brittney Griner is Left to Languish in a Russian Prison, ARIZONA REPUBLIC (March 14, 2022).

Arizona Bill Would End an Effort to Stop Racial Bias in Jury Selection Before it Begins (with Henry F. Fradella, Jessica M. Salerno, Cassia C. Spohn and Shi Yan), ARIZONA REPUBLIC (Feb. 22, 2022).

Traumatized Witnesses and Victims of Police Violence Get Shut Out of Compensation Funds (with Njeri Rutledge), USA TODAY (May 4, 2021).

Police Review Board Must Represent the Most-Affected Communities (with Frank Rudy Cooper), THE ARIZONA CAPITOL TIMES (July 1, 2020).

Vulnerable Populations in the Context of COVID-19: Forward to the Arizona State Law Journal Virtual Symposium (with Jennifer Oliva), 2 ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL ONLINE 69 (2020). [SSRN]

COVID-19 and Criminal Justice: Forward to the Chicago Law Review Virtual Symposium (with Brandon L. Garrett), 2020 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW ONLINE 1 (Nov. 16, 2020). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2018 Innocence Network Conference Scholarship Panel Articles (with Stephanie Hartung), 11 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 589 (2019). [HeinOnline

Prison Labor is Modern Slavery, THE GLOBE POST (Sept. 6, 2018).

Will the Federal Government Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment at 150 Years, 17 INSIGHTS ON LAW AND SOCIETY 12 (2017). [HeinOnline]

Race to Death: A Critical Look at the Death Penalty as Arkansas Executes Eight, JURIST (March 29, 2017).

Justice Antonin Scalia’s Rebuke of Innocence, OXFORD HUMAN RIGHTS HUB (March 8, 2016).

Flawed Forensics and Innocence, CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL (Mar. 6, 2016).

Introduction to the West Virginia Law Review Flawed Forensics and Innocence Symposium, 119 WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 101 (2016). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2016 Innocence Network Conference, San Antonio (with Aliza Kaplan, Keith Findley, and Gwen Jordan), 45 HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW 365 (2016). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

New Books in Forensics: Cops in Lab Coats, Reviewed by Valena Beety, FORENSICS FORUM (November 5, 2015).

Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2015 Innocence Network Conference, Orlando, Florida (with Aliza Kaplan and Robert Schehr), 3 TEXAS A&M LAW REVIEW 179 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

After Ferguson: What Can We Do?, CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL (Nov. 30, 2014).

Protecting West Virginia's Innocent (with Ifeoma Ike), 2013 WEST VIRGINIA LAWYER 30 (2013). [HeinOnline]

Buffey Case Shows W.Va. Must Record Police Interrogations, CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL (Dec. 20, 2012).

The Cost of Death, JACKSON FREE PRESS (July 14, 2010).

Georgia Rape Case Dismissed Because of Victim’s Sexual History?, FEMINISTING (May 15, 2008).