International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Gary Davis

Gary Davis is Professor of Law at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He recently stepped down as Dean of the Law School, having served two terms and following a successful external review and re-accreditation process. On behalf of the Council of Australian Law Deans, he is spending 2008 as Director of the Discipline Based Initiative in Law, funded by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. He was educated at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto (LLB 1977) and the University of Michigan (LLM 1980). He has spent over a quarter of a century as a legal academic in Australia, including as a foundation appointment when a new law school was established at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia in 1990. His recent publications and scholarship are in the fields of remedies, conflict of laws, and teaching and assessment methodologies and practices. He maintains a special interest in how to deal with large class sizes, especially via students learning and being assessed in groups, and in 2001 was a co-recipient of a Flinders Teaching and Learning Innovations Grant related to that theme. Relevant legal education publications include the co-authored “Law School Lemonade: Or Can You Turn External Pressures into Educational Advantages?” (2005) 14 Griffith Law Review 108.