Kevin E Davis

Professor

New York University

Current

Columbia Law School

LL.M.

1996

University of Toronto

LL.B.

1993

McGill University

B.A. | Economics

1990

Co-Editor (with Katharina Pistor)

Current

Activities: Law, Institutions and Development, an e-mail abstracting journal published by the Social Science Research Network.

Co-Reporter

Current

Activities: Insolvency Institute of Canada Task Force on Business Insolvency Law Reform.

Reporter

Current

Activities: Insolvency Institute of Canada Project on Reform of the Winding-up and Restructuring Act.

Referee

Current

Activities: Canadian Journal of Economics

Referee

Current

Activities: European Journal of International Law

Referee

Current

Activities: International Review of Law and Economics

Referee

Current

Activities: McGill Law Journal

Referee

Current

Activities: Modern Law Review

Referee

Current

Activities: Ottawa Law Review

Referee

Current

Activities: University of British Columbia Law Review

Referee

Current

Activities: University of Toronto Law Journal

Referee

Current

Activities: University of Chicago Press

Chair

2008 - Current

Activities: Association of American Law Schools Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law

Co-Chair

2006 - 2007

Activities: Academic Personnel Committee,NYU

Enron and the Long Shadow of Stat. 13 Eliz., London School of Economics Conference

November 30, 2008

Comment on Douglas Baird,Conference on Commercial Law and Commercial Practice

The Demand for Bijurally Trained Canadian Lawyers, Department of Justice Conference, Toronto

October 17, 2008

Conference on Bijuralism: An Economic Approach(with Michael Trebilcock)

The Financial War on Terrorism, Singapore

June 25, 2008

Symposium on Comparative Anti-Terrorism Law & Policy

Equality for the Sake of Efficiency: Economic Implications of Unequal Protection of Property Rights, American Law and Economics Association Fifteenth Annual Meeting

May 6, 2008

 Promissory Fraud Without Breach, Wisconsin Law Review Symposium

February 6, 2008

University of Wisconsin Law School

Comment on Ian Ayres and Greg Klass,

Sovereigns, Settlement, Delay and Trial

October 9, 2007

Washington and Lee Faculty Workshop

Interpreting Boilerplate, Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting

September 29, 2007

The Regulation of Social Enterprise

January 22, 1999

University of Toronto

Conference on Charity and Charities Law, Faculty of Law

Deterring Transnational Bribery: Are the Anti-Bribery Conventions Up to the Task?

November 13, 1998

Conference on Political Corruption in Market Democracies

After Government Cuts: Insights From Two Ontario Case Studies of  Enterprising Nonprofits

October 23, 1998

Queen's University, Kingston

Comment on Raymond Dart and Brenda Zimmerman, Not-for-Profit Sector Research Initiative Research Workshop

Limited Liability Professional Partnerships and the Economics of Mandatory Insurance, Toronto

October 16, 1998

28th Annual Workshop on Commercial and Consumer Law

The Relationship Between Economic Rights and The New Institutional Economics,, Toronto

October 1, 1998

Linking the Domestic and the International: Human Rights into the 21st Century

Ethnically Homogeneous Commercial Elites in Developing Countries, 1998 Annual Reunion and Tenth John M. Olin Annual Conference, Toronto

September 25, 1998

1998 Faculty Retreat,Conference in Law and Economics(with M. Trebilcock).

Protecting Vulnerable Creditors in Insolvency: Assessing the Economic Impacts of Granting Super-Priority to Unpaid Wage Earners and Suppliers of Goods and Services, Tenth John M. Olin Annual Conference

September 25, 1998

Conference in Law and Economics(with J. Ziegel)

The Role of Criminal Law in Insolvency, Cambridge

September 13, 1998

Jesus College

workshop given at the Sixteenth International Symposium on Economic Crime (with I.Lynch)

Is there a Place for Antitrust Law and for Consumer Protection in the Transition to a Market Economy, Lima, Peru

August 10, 1998

Yale Law School and the National Institute for the Defense of Competition

Creating A Market Economy, a conference sponsored by Program for Studies in Capitalism(for the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI))

Fraud in the Canadian Courts: An Unwarranted Expansion of the Scope of the Criminal Sanction, Vancouver

October 17, 1997

27th Annual Workshop on Commercial and Consumer Law

Nations in Transition to Democracy: The Management of Radical Transformation, Ditchley Foundation meeting

January 17, 1997

Ditchley Park, UK

 Legislating Against the Financing of Terrorism: Pitfalls and Prospects, 20th Cambridge International Symposium

Symposium on Economic Crime

 Reform of the Winding-Up and Restructuring Act, Canadian Financial Institution Insolvency Consumer Protection Seminar, Toronto

 The Demand for Immutable Contracts: Another Look at the Law and Economics of Contract Modification and Renegotiation, American Law and Economics Association Thirteenth Annual Meeting

 The Demand for Immutable Contracts: Another Look at the Law and Economics of Contract Modification and Renegotiation

New York University School of Law Faculty Workshop

 The Demand for Immutable Contracts: Another Look at the Law and Economics of Contract Modification and Renegotiation

Georgetown Law and Economics Workshop

Clarifying Property Rights

NYU Brown Bag Lunch

Cutting off the Flow of Funds to Terrorists: Whose Funds? Which Funds? Who Decides?, Toronto

The Security of Freedom: A Conference on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill

Deterring Transnational Bribery: Are the Anti-Bribery Conventions Up to the Task?

University of Southern California Law School

John M. Olin Foundation Workshop

Does Contract Law Necessarily Crowd Out Non-Legal Institutions?, AALS Conference

Conference on Exploring the Boundaries of Contract Law

Equality for the Sake of Efficiency: Economic Implications of Unequal Protection of Property Rights, New Delhi

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Conference on Law, Economics and Development, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance

Explaining Levels of Commitment to Legality in Developing Countries

University of Toronto

Faculty of Law, Law and Economics Workshop (with M. Trebilcock)

Explaining Levels of Commitment to Legality in Developing Countries, 2001 International Conference, Budapest

Central European University

Conference on Law and Society

Interpreting Boilerplate, Northwestern Law and Economics Colloquium

Interpreting Boilerplate

Berkeley Law and Economics Workshop

Interpreting Boilerplate, NYU Faculty Scholarship Forum

Lawmaking in Small Jurisdictions

Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies

Lawmaking in Small Jurisdictions

Centre for Business Research,Cambridge University

Lawmaking in Small Jurisdictions, American Law and Economics Association Twelfth Annual Meeting

Lawmaking in Small Jurisdictions

University of Virginia Law School Legal Studies Workshop

Self-Interest and Altruism in the Deterrence of Transnational Bribery, Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto

Self-Interest and Altruism in the Deterrence of Transnational Bribery

University of California at Los Angeles

Faculty Lunch

Self-Interest and Altruism in the Deterrence of Transnational Bribery

International Law Workshop

Self-Interest and Altruism in the Deterrence of Transnational Bribery, American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, New York

Sovereigns, Settlement, Delay and Trial, Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting

Sovereigns, Settlement, Delay and Trial, American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting

presented by K. Wyman

Taking the Measure of Law: The Case of the Doing Business Project

Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo

Taking the Measure of Law: The Case of the Doing Business Project, Xth Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association Conference, Buenos Aires

Taking the Measure of Law: The Case of the Doing Business Project, Comparative Law and Economics Forum, New York

Taking the Measure of Law: The Case of the Doing Business Project, American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting, Ithaca

The Regulation of Social Enterprise

Schulich School of Business

guest lecture to class on Non-profit Management and Leadership.

The Regulation of Technology Transfer to Developing Countries: The Relevance of Institutional Capacity

Technology and Development, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law School

Workshop on Law

The Role of Nonprofits in the Production of Boilerplate

University of Michigan Symposium on Boilerplate

The Winding-up and Restructuring Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act: A Comparative Analysis, Annual Meeting of the Insolvency Institute of Canada, Banff

The Winding-Up and Restructuring Act: Recommendations for Reform, Tenth Annual General Meeting and Conference, Scottsdale

Institute of Canada

Conference of the Insolvency

The WTO, Law and Development: The Domestic Connection, American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting, Washington DC

The WTO, Law and Development: The Domestic Connection, XIIth South American International Law Conference, Florianópolis, Brazil

What Does it Mean to Owe a Fiduciary Duty to Creditors?, Toronto

Hoskin & Harcourt

Presentation to Osler

What Role do Legal Institutions Play in Development?, IMF Conference, Washington

Conference on Second Generation Reforms

What Role do Legal Institutions Play in Development?, Centre for International Studies Development Seminar, Toronto

In each case, with M. Trebilcock

Why Do Firms Issue Secured Debt? An Economic Analysis, Toronto

Osgoode Hall Law School

guest lecture to LL.M. class on Receivership and Other Remedies in Secured Transactions