Cory Way

Focus areas : Criminal justice policy and management; crime, media and journalism; presidential commutations and pardons; white collar crime; the intersection of art and crime; mentoring in the legal profession

Cory Way  is Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at SIPA.  He was formerly an award-winning Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University, the Kirkland House Dean at Harvard College, and Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School''s Centre on the Legal Profession.  

Way holds a doctorate from Oxford and is a licensed attorney who has practiced both litigation and corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington, DC. While in law practice he maintained an active pro bono practice, most recently winning political asylum for a Rwanda genocide survivor whose entire family had been murdered; his work on this novel case earned a pro bono award from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.

He holds degrees from Princeton, Harvard, Virginia and the University of Oxford, where he also served in dean positions at Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges. While in England he was also appointed as Course Director for a masters degree program at the University of Cambridge.

Way’s public service includes four years at the U.S. Department of Justice (working for the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs, the U.S. Pardon Attorney, and the Director of the Bureau of Prisons) and one year as a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He has also served in an executive director capacity for both the National Committee on Community Corrections and the National Prison Industry Task Force.

Education

• PhD, Oxford University
• MPA, Harvard Kennedy School
• JD, University of Virginia
• AB, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School