Shy regularly speaks at industry events and is a visiting lecturer on the Construction Law MSc at King’s College London and the International Construction Practice and Law MBE at the University of Stuttgart. Shy is active within the industry and has been an elected member of the Society of Construction Law Council since 2012 and the treasurer since 2019. In 2019 he was also appointed as a member of the NEC Board. 

His recent publications include a joint paper with Professor David Mosey on “Good Faith and relational contracting – do enterprise contracts offer a way through the woods?” published by the Society of Construction Law in 2020, What do the words mean: Different approaches to the interpretation of contracts, a joint paper with Wolfgang Breyer, Julio Bueno and Brian Gaudet, presented at the 2018 North American Society of Construction Law and published by the International Construction Law Review, and he writes regularly for publications such at the RICS Journal and the NEC Newsletter. Shy has also contributed to leading textbooks, including the UK chapter of Studies in European Construction Law, published by the European Society of Construction Law in 2015, writing a chapter in Construction Law, Costs and Contemporary Developments: Drawing the Threads Together A Festschrift for Lord Justice Jackson, published in 2018 and contributing to International Construction Contract Law by Lukas Klee published by Wiley.