 
| Adrienne Dale Davis Reef C. Ivey II Research Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law J.D., Yale Law School B.A., Yale University Adrienne Davis is the Reef C. Ivey II Research Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she teaches Property, Contracts, Trusts and Estates, and a variety of upper-level legal theory courses, including Sex Equality, Law and Literature, and Slavery. Her scholarship emphasizes the gendered and private law dimensions of American slavery, as well as theories of commodification, law and literature, and reparations. From 1994-2000, Davis was a professor and co-director of the Gender, Work & Family Project at the Washington College of Law at American University. She has also taught at the University of San Francisco and the University of Chicago law schools. Davis is the recipient of two Ford Foundation grants, the most recent administered through Brandeis University’s Feminist Sexual Ethics Project to research women, slavery, sexuality, and religion. She was awarded the Frederick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence by the graduating class of 2004, and has served as a Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center. While a student at Yale Law School, Davis was Executive Committee Editor of The Yale Law Journal. After graduating she clerked for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Davis serves on the boards of the Center of the Study for the American South and the Cultural Studies Program at the University of North Carolina and the publication committee of the Law & History Review. She was a member of the Program Committee for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, and is currently a Distinguished Lecturer with that organization. She is a former editor of the Journal of Legal Education and Law and History Review and past chair of the Law & Humanities Section of the American Association of Law Schools. Publications | |
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