Anne Davies (legal scholar)
British legal scholar
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Anne Caroline Lloyd Davies FBA (born 27 December 1973) is a British legal scholar, who is Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford[1] and professorial fellow in law at Brasenose College, Oxford,[2] She was dean of the Faculty of Law from 2015 to 2020. She is also a senior research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, where she chairs the Procurement of Government Outcomes Club.[3] She is a former general editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.[4] As of 2021[update] she is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations.[5]
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| Born | 27 December 1973 |
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| Alma mater | Lincoln College, Oxford |
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| Discipline | Legal scholar |
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Biography
Davies was born on 27 December 1973 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England.[6] She was a student at Lincoln College, Oxford, and won the Gibbs and Martin Wronker University Prizes for Law. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (1995 to 2001), during which time she completed her doctorate on contractualisation in the National Health Service.[7]
After moving to Brasenose College, Oxford in 2001, she became reader in public law in 2006.[2] She was awarded a title of distinction as Professor of Law and Public Policy in 2011.[8]
She is a member of the editorial board of the Industrial Law Journal,[9] the European Labour Law Journal[10] and Current Legal Problems.[11]
She is a non-executive member of the Board of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman,[12] and a member of the advisory panel to the Welsh Language Commissioner,[13] and was formerly an independent member of the council of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.[1] As of 2021[update] she is Honorary Secretary of The Society of Legal Scholars.[14]
In 2024, she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[15]
Books
- Accountability: A Public Law Analysis of Government By Contract (Oxford University Press 2001)
- Perspectives on Labour Law (Cambridge University Press 2004, 2nd edition 2009)
- The Public Law of Government Contracts (Oxford University Press 2008)
- EU Labour Law (Elgar European Law Series 2012)
- Employment Law (Longman Law Series 2015)
- Valuing Employment Rights (Hart Publishing 2024)