Short Bio:

• Michael C. Davis is a Professor of Law. He has served as the J. Landis Martin Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School (2005-2006), the Robert and Marion Short Visiting Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School (2004-2005) and as the Schell Senior Fellow in Human Rights at the Yale Law School (1994-95).

• He serves on a variety of committees and advisory boards, including: Chair, Human Rights Research Committee, International Political Science Association; Chair, Pacific Rim Interest Group, American Society of International Law; Editorial Board, Journal of Human Rights; Editorial Board, Human Rights Series of Georgetown University Press. His book publications include Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (Macmillan Press, 1990), Human Rights and Chinese Values (Oxford University Press, 1995), International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World: Moral Responsibility and Power Politics (M.E. Sharpe, 2003)

• He conducts research and teaching on international law, the political economy of human rights, human rights and political culture, constitutionalism, humanitarian intervention and the emerging global order. He holds degrees from Ohio State University, the University of California and Yale Law School and has served as a Federal Law Clerk to Judge Martin Pence in the District of Hawaii (1980-81).