Valena Beety

Professor Valena Beety is a faculty member at West Virginia University College of Law. She co-edited the book The Wrongful Convictions Reader, which examines systemic issues in criminal justice including false confessions, witness misidentification, cognitive bias, junk science, prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective counsel. Her scholarship is widely disseminated through platforms like SSRN, and the book was reviewed in Cardozo Law Review de novo. Her work intersects legal scholarship with social justice, emphasizing reform in criminal justice practices.