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Billy Davies

Assistant Professor
Department of Justice, Law and Society

  • Dr. Bill Davies is a legal historian, focusing on the transnational nature of legal ideas and systems. His particular field of expertise lies in the law and institutions of the European Union. His work examines the consolidation of the European public law arena since the Second World War, with emphasis falling on the European Court of Justice, its promotion of a direct effective and supreme legal framework and how this was received in the EU's Member States.

    He is currently working on 'reception studies' based on Germany and the UK. In the future, he hopes to embed the supranational project of European Union within the longer historical context of Western legal history.

    He teaches courses such as JLS-110 Western Legal Traditions and JLS-411 Great Trials in Legal History.

    Born and raised in London in the UK but having spent a number of years in Berlin, Germany, he came to American University in the fall of 2007.

  • Degrees

    Phd European Studies, King's College London; BA (Hons) European Studies and German, King's College London, London School of Economics and Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin

  • Favorite Spot on Campus:

    Woods Brown Amphitheatre

    Book Currently Reading:

    The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin;

    Languages Spoken:

    German (fluent); French (working knowledge)
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Teaching

  • Fall 2011

    • UCOL-100 Univ College Washington Lab: Western Legal Tradition
    • Description

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

“The West German Reception of European Community Law 1949-1958: General Trends and Characteristics” in Journal of European Integration History, January 2009

“The Constitutionalisation of the European Community: West Germany between Legal Sovereignty and European Integration 1949-1974”, Doctoral Dissertation submitted to King's College London July 2007

 

 

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

2003-6: School of Humanities Research Scholarship, King’s College London

2004-5: Stipendium der Studienstiftung des Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus, Berlin State Parliament Award

 

 

AU Expert

Area of Expertise: European Union law and politics; the European Constitution; German history, politics, and constitution; legal and political theory

Additional Information: Bill Davies joined the AU faculty in August 2007 after finishing his doctoral research at King's College London. His research examines the supranational nature of the European Union's legal framework and its interaction with its member states. He has been published in the Journal of European Integration History and has presented at numerous international conferences on the European Constitution on both sides of the Atlantic.

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