Prof. Michael C. Davis
October 5, 2023 2024-08-20 10:11Prof. Michael C. Davis
Prof. Michael C. Davis
Professor of Law and International Affairs
B.A. (Ohio State University);
J.D. (University of California Hasting College of the Law);
LLM/Yale Law School/1984; Juris Doctorate/University of California/1980
Prof. Michael C. Davis is the Professor of Law and International Affairs at O. P. Jindal Global University, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and a Senior Research Scholar at both the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University and the US Asia Law Institute at NYU. He was the 2018-2019 Residential Fellow at the Wilson Center and the 2016-2017 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the US National Endowment for Democracy. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong for many years until late 2016.
He has held a number of distinguished visiting appointments, including J. Landis Martin Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (2005-6), the Robert and Marion Short Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University (2004-5) and the Frederick K. Cox Human Rights Professorship at Case Western Reserve University (2000), as well as the Schell Senior Human Rights Fellowship at Yale Law School (1994-5).
His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals in law and politics. His books include Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law (Columbia University Press, author, 2020), International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (M. E. Sharp, editor, 2004), Human Rights and Chinese Values (Oxford University Press, editor, 1995) Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (St. Martin’s Press, author,1990).
As a public intellectual he has contributed commentary to a variety of international media, including Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Nikkei Asian Review and the South China Morning Post, as well as such broadcast media as CNN, the BBC, and NPR. Amnesty International and the Hong Kong FCC awarded him a 2014 Human Rights Press Award for a series of commentary published in the South China Morning. For highlights of his various interest and activities see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Davis
Books:
- Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong, (New York: Columbia University Press, AAS Series, 2024) (author)
- Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law, (New York: Columbia University Press, AAS Series, 2020) (author)
- International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World: Moral Responsibility and Power Politics, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004) (lead editor)
- Human Rights and Chinese Values: Legal, Philosophical and Political Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1995) (editor)
- The Aftermath of the 1989 Crisis in Mainland China (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992) (co-editor)
- Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (London: Macmillan Press, 1990; New York: St. Martins Press, 1990) (author)
Select Journal Articles:
- Hong Kong: How Beijing Perfected Repression, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 33/1, January, 2022
- “Beijing’s Crackdown on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong,” Asia Policy, Vol. 16/2, April 2021[6]
- Strengthening Constitutionalism in Asia, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 28 (October 2017) pp. 147–161. www.journalofdemocracy.org/article/
strengthening-constitutionalism-asia - The Basic Law, Universal Suffrage and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong,” Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 38/2, Spring, 2016, pp. 275–298.
- Can International Law Help Resolve the Conflicts Over Uninhabited Islands in the East China Sea?”, Denver Journal of International Law, Vol. 43/2 (2015) pp. 119–163.
- Tibet and China’s National Minority Policies,” Orbis, Vol. 56/3, (2012), pp. 429–446[7] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orbis.2012.05.009/”
- Professor Davis has held numerous academic positions in several leading academic institutions, including the J. Landis Martin Visiting Professorship in Human Rights at Northwestern University, the Robert and Marion Short Visiting Professorship at Notre Dame University and the Frederick K. Cox Visiting Professorship at Case Western Reserve University, as well as the Schell Senior Fellowship in Human Rights at Yale Law School. For much of her early career he held professorships in Hong Kong at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and then at the University of Hong Kong.
- He is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, a Senior Research Associate at the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, and an affiliate scholar at both the Liu Institute for Asia Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the U.S. Asia Law Institute at New York University. He was the 2016–2017 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, at the National Endowment for Democracy, where his research related to “resistance movements and constitutionalism in emerging democracies in Asia.”[5] Davis held the Wilson Center Residential Fellowship for 2018–2019 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC where his project title was “Reversing the Liberal Retreat and Establishing Constitutionalism in Emerging Democracies in Asia.”
- His contributions to higher education were recognised in the “Award for Distinguished Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Higher Education in India, awarded by the O.P. Jindal Global University in 2015 and in a “Certificate of Commendation” from the International Committee for the Red Cross, in regard to his contribution to the founding in 2011 of the Asian Regional Humanitarian Law Moot Competition.”
- Comparative constitutional law
- constitutionalism in emerging states
- popular protest and democratization
- international human rights
- political economy of human rights
- human rights and political culture
- public international law
- international humanitarian law
- territorial conflict in international law
- sovereignty and the state
- federalism and autonomy
- indigenous people’s rights
- Tibetan rights
- and Hong Kong’s constitutional development.
- International Human Rights
- Regional Protection of Human Rights
- National Protection of Human Rights
- Human Rights and Development
- Public International Law
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Constitutionalism in Emerging States and related topics