Seth Davis
Professor of Law
sdavis@law.berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3943
424 Law Building (North Addition), Berkeley, CA 94720 MC:7200
Faculty Support Contact: Tyler Slay
Areas of Expertise: Administrative Law | Civil Procedure and Litigation | Constitutional Law | Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples | Law and Society | Racial and Social Justice | Torts and Personal Injury
Publications
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Seth Davis is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. His research explores questions of sovereignty, responsibility, and redress as they arise in both public law and private law, focusing upon administrative law, the federal courts, federal Indian law, fiduciary law, and tort law. His scholarship has appeared in the?Stanford Law Review, the?Columbia Law Review, and the?California Law Review, among other leading journals, and has been honored by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). In addition, Davis is co-author of?Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, the leading treatise in the field. He has served on the Editorial Board of?Law & Social Inquiry?and as the Chair of the Federal Courts Section of the AALS. His media appearances and public commentary include National Public Radio, the?Washington Post, and Vice News Tonight, and he is a co-author of?D.C. Circuit Review – Reviewed?at the?Notice & Comment?blog. An award-winning teacher, Davis has taught a wide range of first-year and upper-level courses.
Before joining the Berkeley Law community, Davis taught at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and at Harvard Law School, where he was a Climenko Fellow. Prior to his academic career, Davis worked as an appellate litigator and provided regulatory counseling in the areas of financial services law, securities regulation, and political ethics at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he also developed an active pro bono practice. He clerked for the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Davis received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. from Davidson College.
Education
J.D., Columbia University School of Law (2008)MSc, The London School of Economics and Political Science (2003)
B.A., Davidson College (2002)
Profiles
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Seth Davis is teaching the following course in Fall 2022:
• 201 sec. 004 - Torts-->
Courses During Other Semesters
Spring 2021 286.5 sec. 001 Federal Indian Law View Teaching Evaluation
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