Shelly Simana is an Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School, where her scholarship explores the intersection of law and bioethics. Her research focuses on legal and ethical challenges arising from advancements in genetics, reproductive technologies, and biotechnology.
Shelly earned her LL.B. and B.A. in Government from Reichman University in Israel. She completed her LL.M. and S.J.D. at Harvard Law School, where her doctoral dissertation, “Toward a Relational Approach to Genome Governance,” proposed a novel legal framework for governing human genetic material and information.
Before joining Boston College, Simana was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences. She has also held teaching and research positions at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard Kennedy School. Her work has been published in leading journals, including the UC Irvine Law Review, Yale Journal of Law & Technology, and Journal of Law and the Biosciences.