School of Law: Law School Staff - Margaret Davies

Margaret Davies
BA(Hons), LLB(Hons)(Adel); MA, DPhil(Sussex)
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Professor

After studying law and English literature at Adelaide University in the 1980s, Margaret completed a doctorate in critical legal theory at Sussex University. On her return to Adelaide, Margaret started her academic career in 1992 as a foundation staff member at the new Law School at Flinders University. Since that time, she has taught in a number of different topics, including Torts, Legal Method, Sports Law, and Law and Medicine. In recent years, her teaching has been mainly in Law and Literature, Modern Legal Theory, Lawyering, and History and Philosophy of Law. Margaret's research covers several areas of legal theory, including postmodern and critical legal thought, feminist jurisprudence, the philosophy of property and legal pluralism. She supervises several research higher degree students whose thesis topics deal with legal theory in one form or another. Margaret has been a recipient of two Australian Research Council grants. She is on the international editorial board of Social and Legal Studies and on the editorial board of the Macquarie Law Journal. Her major publications include Delimiting the Law: Postmodernism and the Politics of Law (1996), Are Persons Property? Legal Debates About Property and Personality (with Ngaire Naffine, 2001), Asking the Law Question: The Dissolution of Legal Theory (2nd ed 2002) and Property: Meanings: Histories, and Theories (2007). In 2006 Margaret was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Selected Publications