Anne Davies | |
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Alma mater | Lincoln College, Oxford |
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Discipline | Legal scholar |
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Anne C. L. Davies FBA 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]
Davies 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. [6]
After moving to Brasenose College, Oxford in 2001, she became reader in public law in 2006. [2] She was warded a title of distinction as Professor of Law and Public Policy in 2010. [7]
She is a member of the editorial board of the Industrial Law Journal , [8] the European Labour Law Journal [9] and Current Legal Problems. [10]
She is an independent member of the council of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, and a member of the advisory panel to the Welsh Language Commissioner. [1] As of 2021 [update] she is Honorary Secretary of The Society of Legal Scholars. [11]
In 2024, she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social siences. [12]
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