Adrienne Davis
William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 552
Phone: (314) 935-8583
E-mail: adavis@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Rachel Mance - (314) 935-6403
- Curriculum Vitae [view]
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Courses Taught
Contracts
Trusts & Estates
Slavery
Law & Literature
Feminist Theory
Education
B.A., 1987, Yale College
J.D.,1991, Yale Law School
Profile
Adrienne D. Davis is the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University Law School, where she teaches contracts, trusts & estates, and a variety of upper-level legal theory courses, including sex equality, law and literature, and slavery. Her scholarship emphasizes the gendered and private law dimensions of American slavery. She also does work on feminist legal theory and conceptions of justice and reparations. She is recipient of two grants from the Ford Foundation, the first to explore black women and labor, and the most recent administered through Brandeis University's Feminist Sexual Ethics Project to research women, slavery, sexuality, and religion. In 2001 Davis was a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Davis is currently serving her second term as a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. She is past chair of the Law and Humanities Section of the Association of American Law Schools and has been on the editorial boards of Law and History Review and Journal of Legal Education. She is the co-author of the book, Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America (NYU Press), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Prior to joining the faculty in January 2008, Davis served as the Reef C. Ivey II Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina and was a professor and co-director of the Gender, Work & Family Project at Washington College of Law, American University. Davis graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School and clerked for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.