Flinders University
Prof Margaret Davies
Prof
Margaret
Davies
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/margaret.davies
| Position/s: | Professor Flinders Law School |
| Phone: | +61 8 82013629 |
| Email: | margaret.davies@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Law Commerce (2.22) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
After studying law and English literature at Adelaide University in the 1980s, Margaret completed a doctorate in critical legal theory at Sussex University. Margaret was a foundation staff member of the Law School at Flinders University and has been a visiting scholar at Birkbeck College, Umea University, UBC, University of Kent, and Victoria University of Wellington. She has been a recipient of three Australian Research Council grants, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. From 2010 to 2012 Margaret was a member of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of the ARC College of Experts, and chaired the panel in 2011. Margaret is on the advisory boards of Social and Legal Studies, Feminist Legal Studies, and the Macquarie Law Journal. She has recently held a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at Kent University.
Qualifications
BA (Hons 1; English Literature) - Adelaide University
LLB (Hons 1) - Adelaide University
MA (Critical Theory) - Sussex University
DPhil (Legal and Critical Theory) - Sussex University
Honours, awards and grants
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Fellow, Australian Academy of Law
Teaching
Research and supervision
Research expertise
- Law
Research interests
Margaret's research covers several areas of legal theory, including critical legal thought, feminist jurisprudence, the philosophy of property and legal pluralism. She is particularly interested in the connections between the several different fields of legal theory. A special interest over the years has been the relationship between theoretical approaches to law and meaningful change in the practice and understanding of law.
Supervisory interests
- Feminist legal theory
- Legal theory
RHD research supervision
Current
Principal supervisor:
Legal theory (1);
Legal capacity (1);
Associate supervisor:
Legal theory (1);
Feminist legal studies (1);
Completion
Principal supervisor:
Myths of Objectivity (1);
The Feral State (1);
Legal theory (1);
Legal capacity (1);
Publications
Books
Davies, M.J. (2008). Asking the law question. 3rd ed. Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Lawbook Co.
Davies, M.J. (2007). Property: Meanings, histories, theories. Oxon, UK: Routledge Cavendish.
Davies, M.J. and Naffine, N. (2001). Are Persons Property? Legal Debates About Property and Personality. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate/Dartmouth.
Book chapters
Davies, M.J. (2011). The Future of Secularism: A Critique. In Nadirsyah Hosen and Richard Mohr, ed. Law and Religion in Public Life. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 52-66.
Davies, M.J. (2010). The Politics of Defining Law. In Peter Cane, ed. The Hart-Fuller Debate in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 157-167.
Davies, M.J. (2010). Legal Pluralism. In Peter Cane and Herbert M Kritzer, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 805-827.
Refereed journal articles
Davies, M.J. (2012). The Law Becomes Us: Rediscovering Judgment (Review Article). Feminist Legal Studies, 20(2), pp.167-181. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10691-012-9204-y.
Davies, M.J. (2008). Feminism and the flat law theory. Feminist Legal Studies, 16(3), pp.281-304. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10691-008-9096-z.
Davies, M.J. (2007). Unity and Diversity in Feminist Legal Theory. Philosophy Compass, 2(4), pp.650-664. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00091.x.
Davies, M.J. (2006). Pluralism and legal philosophy. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 57, pp.577-596.
Books
Davies, M.J. (2008). Asking the law question. 3rd ed. Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Lawbook Co.
Davies, M.J. (2007). Property: Meanings, histories, theories. Oxon, UK: Routledge Cavendish.
Davies, M.J. and Naffine, N. (2001). Are Persons Property? Legal Debates About Property and Personality. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate/Dartmouth.
Book chapters
Davies, M.J. (2011). The Future of Secularism: A Critique. In Nadirsyah Hosen and Richard Mohr, ed. Law and Religion in Public Life. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 52-66.
Davies, M.J. (2010). The Politics of Defining Law. In Peter Cane, ed. The Hart-Fuller Debate in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 157-167.
Davies, M.J. (2010). Legal Pluralism. In Peter Cane and Herbert M Kritzer, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 805-827.
Davies, M.J. (2009). Anarchism. In Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 30-31.
Davies, M.J. (2009). Method in Legal Theory. In Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 783-784.
Davies, M.J. (2009). Queer. In Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 975-976.
Davies, M.J. (2009). Theory in Legal Research. In Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 1165-1167.
Davies, M.J. (2009). Propriety. In Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 948-949.
Alston, A., Davies, M.J., Knowler, P.J., Rankin, M.J. and Son, C.L. (2008). First Year Students and Pleadings. In Andrew Alston, ed. Lawyering: Procedures and Ethics. Brisbane: LexisNexis, pp. 176-185.
Davies, M.J. (2002). Authority, meaning, legitimacy. In Goldsworthy, Jeffrey Denys & Campbell, Tom D., ed. Legal Interpretation in Democratic States. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 115-129.
Davies, M.J. (2001). Derrida and law: Legitimate Fictions. In Jacques Derrida and the Humanities. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 213-237.
Refereed journal articles
Davies, M.J. (2012). Persons, Property and Community. feminists@law, 2(2), pp.1-21. [online]. http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/37.
Davies, M.J. (2012). The Law Becomes Us: Rediscovering Judgment (Review Article). Feminist Legal Studies, 20(2), pp.167-181. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10691-012-9204-y.
Davies, M.J. (2008). Feminism and the flat law theory. Feminist Legal Studies, 16(3), pp.281-304. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10691-008-9096-z.
Davies, M.J. (2007). Unity and Diversity in Feminist Legal Theory. Philosophy Compass, 2(4), pp.650-664. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00091.x.
Davies, M.J. (2006). Exclusion and the identity of law. Macquarie Law Journal, 5, pp.5-30. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=335877347113478;res=IELHSS.
Davies, M.J. (2006). Pluralism and legal philosophy. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 57, pp.577-596.
Davies, M.J. (2005). The ethos of pluralism. Sydney Law Review, 27(1), pp.87-112. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=20051741;res=AGISPT.
Davies, M.J. (2003). Legal Theory and Law Reform: Some Mainstream and Critical Approaches. Alternative Law Journal, 28(4), pp.168-171. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=200310278;res=APAFT.
Davies, M.J. (2002). Ethics and methodology in legal theory: a (personal) research anti-manifesto. Law Text Culture, 6, pp.7-26.
Journal articles
Davies, M.J. and Drakopoulou, M. (2012). Introduction: Gender Equality and Othering in the Swedish Welfare State. feminists@law, 2(1), pp.1-3.
Davies, M.J. (2012). Trajectories and Trials. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 37, pp.293-298.
Davies, M.J. (2005). Statutes amendment (relationships) Bill 2005. Alternative Law Journal, 30(6), pp.298-299.
Davies, M.J. and Mack, K.M. (2004). Legal feminism - now and then. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 20, pp.1-6. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=200407405;res=APAFT.
Davies, M.J. (2003). Modernism and the grounds of law (Book Review). Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 28, pp.242-247.
Davies, M.J. and Naffine, N. (2003). Author's introduction: book symposium. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 28, pp.189-191.
Davies, M.J. and Naffine, N. (2003). Response to the commentators. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 28, pp.221-229.
Conference publications
Davies, M.J. (2001). The Common Law Culture of Property and Propriety. In Calleman, Catharinia, ed. Rattsculture - rapport fran ett seminarium: Skrifter fran Juridiska institutionen Umea universitet. Sweden.
Other public research outputs
Davies, M.J. and Drakopoulou, M. (2012). Co-Editor. Gender Equality and Othering in the Swedish Welfare State, 2(1), p.n/a-n/a. [online]. http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/index.
Davies, M.J. (2007). Co-editor (Book of scholarly essays). Exploiting the Limits of Law.
Davies, M.J. and Mack, K.M. (2004). Editors of special issue. Feminist legal academic workshop: feminism, now and then - special issue of AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST LAW JOURNAL, 20, p.1.
Davies, M.J. (2003). Academic Contributions to Legal Change. , p.32.
Heath, M.A., Brook, H.J. and Davies, M.J. (2003). Response to 'Removing legislative discrimination against same-sex couples: discussion paper '. [online]. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub2342.html?q=removing%20legislative%20discrimination.
Heath, M.A., Davies, M.J. and Brook, H.J. (2003). Removing Legislative Discrimination Against Same-Sex Couples. , p.10.
Professional and community engagement
Member, Women Lawyers Association of South Australia
South Australian Vice-President, Australian Society of Legal Philosophy
