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Mary J. Davis has been on the UK Law faculty since 1991. She joined the faculty after six years of a products liability litigation defense practice for the law firms of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and McGuire, Woods, Battle, & Boothe in Richmond, Virginia. Her experience, which involved management of nationwide litigation, has informed her scholarship in the field of products liability.
Professor Davis was selected in 2016 as University Research Professor from the College of Law. She is co-author of the widely adopted law school textbook Products Liability and Safety: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2015) (including the annual case supplement and Teacher's Manual). She is also a co-author of the leading multi-volume products liability treatise, Owen and Davis, Products Liability Law (4th ed. 2014) (West Publishing). Her articles have appeared in such journals as the Hasting Law Journal, Boston College Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Review, and the Tennessee Law Review. Her recent work on federal preemption of state products liability laws has been cited by the United States Supreme Court.
She has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law, Boston College Law School, William and Mary College of Law and Wake Forest University School of Law. Professor Davis is quoted in the national press on subjects of products liability and mass tort litigation. She is a 1985 magna cum laude graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Law, where she served as Managing Editor of the Law Review, and a 1979 cum laude graduate of the University of Virginia. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute where she has served on the Members Consultative Groups for the Restatement (Third) of Torts and Aggregate Litigation Project.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Education/Academic qualification
Juris Doctor, Wake Forest University
1985
Bachelor of Arts, University Of Virginia
1979
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Projects & Grants
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Research - Corporate Pharmaceutical Liability- "OVPR CURATE Program"
Davis, M. (PI)
Office of the Vice President for Research
5/1/18 → 4/30/19
Project: Research project
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Visiting Scholar - University of Edinburgh- "OVPR CURATE Program"
Davis, M. (PI)
Office of the Vice President for Research
5/1/17 → 4/30/18
Project: Research project
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University of Kentucky Legal Education Access Program (LEAP)
Murphy, D. (PI) & Davis, M. (Former PI)
7/1/08 → 6/30/12
Project: Research project
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Commentary on Escola v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Fresno
J. Davis, M., Jan 1 2020, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions. p. 54-72 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Owen & Davis on Products Liability
Davis, M. & Owen, D., 2020, 4 ed. Thomson Reuters.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Products Liability and Safety: Cases and Materials
Davis, M. & Owen, D., 2020, 8 ed. 916 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts
Davis, M., Christie, G., Sanders, J. & Cardi, W. J., 2019, 6 ed. 1383 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Time for a fresh look at strict liability for pharmaceuticals
Davis, M. J., Mar 2019, In: Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. 28, 3, p. 399-448 50 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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