Career
Davies has held visiting positions at Yale and the University of Bordeaux, Paris, Bonn and a number of universities in South Africa.
Davies is a founder member and Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. In 2000, Davies was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000.
He is an expert in company law and labour law, having written numerous widely-cited articles and some of its most respected and successful texts, including Gower and Davies Principles of Modern Company Law (8th edition, 2008).
Outside academic work Davies was a member of the Company Law Review Steering Group, whose reports eventually led to the Companies Act 2006; he is the general editor of the Industrial Law Journal and is Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee. He was elected an honorary Queen's Counsel in 2006 and an honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn in 2007.
Davies holds degrees from the University of Oxford (BA Jurisprudence, 1966), the London School of Economics (LLM 1968) and Yale Law School (LLM 1969). He is married to the Iranian-born lawyer Sue Ashtiany, a partner with the City law firm Nabarro LLP.
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