Cary Martin Shelby Associate Professor of Law

Phone: 540-458-8513

Email: cshelby@wlu.edu

Office: 446 Lewis Hall 

Area of Expertise

Business Law, Financial Regulation

Education

BS, University of Illinois

JD, Northwestern University

LLM, University of Wisconsin

About

Cary Martin Shelby joins W&L from DePaul University College of Law, where she taught a variety of business law courses such as Business Organizations, Securities Regulation and a seminar on Investment Funds. Shelby received the DePaul College of Law Excellence in Teaching Award in May 2016 and the DePaul University Excellence in Teaching Award in September 2018.

Her research generally encompasses regulatory issues related to hedge funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and it has been cited by Forbes, The Brookings Institution, and an array of other publications. She has published articles in The Business Lawyer (forthcoming), Boston College Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review (co-authored with Steven Ramirez and Kristin Johnson), SMU Law Review, The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, among other journals and periodicals.

Shelby received her B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. She then practiced law in the Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives Group with Sidley Austin LLP for close to four years. As an associate in this group, she represented clients in regulatory and corporate matters involving hedge funds, commodity pools and derivatives trading. After leaving Sidley, Shelby completed the William H. Hastie Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Law School, which is a competitive two-year LL.M. program designed to prepare its candidates for a career in law academia.