Professor Margaret Davies FBA

Summary

Margaret Davies is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Law at Flinders University, South Australia.

She studied law and English literature at the University of Adelaide before completing her doctorate in critical legal theory at the University of Sussex.

In 1992 she was appointed as tutor at the newly formed Law School at Flinders University and, having held various positions at Flinders in the meantime, was appointed as Research Professor in 2019.

Margaret has held visiting positions at Birkbeck School of Law, Umeå University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of British Columbia, and Kent Law School. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Margaret’s research is in legal theory, with a focus on critical legal theory, feminist legal theory, legal pluralism, the philosophy of property, and ecological jurisprudence. Margaret’s most recent books concern the many ways that law is embedded in social and ecological conditions.

She has been particularly interested in developing an account of normativity that connects legal norms with social and ecological norms, enabling a view of law that is emergent from a dynamic natural world.