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Mark Davies
Emeritus Reader (Law)
professions, conduct, ethics, negligence, higher education

Research

Main areas of research interest: Professional conduct of lawyers and medical practitioners, professional ethics, professional negligence and the application of law to higher education. Conference/seminar invitations have included: Anglo-US Higher Education Law Round Table at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies; ESRC Public Services Programme�� - Trust and the regulation of doctors; ESRC Seminar at Cass Centre for Professional Service Firms.��

Selected publications -

Monographs:

Mark Davies (2022) Law and the Regulation of Scientific Research, Routledge, 280pp

Mark Davies (2014) The law of professional immunities, Oxford University Press, 250pp

Mark Davies (2008) Solicitors’ Negligence & Liability, Oxford University Press, 497pp

Mark Davies (2007) Medical Self-Regulation: Crisis & Change, Routledge, 418pp

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Numerous articles published in a range of impactful specialist journals. Examples include:

• Davies, Mark (2024). Scientific debate, misinformation, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Considerations from a medical regulatory perspective. Medical Law International, 24(4), 266-296.
• Davies, Mark (2018) Educational background and access to legal academia. Legal Studies, 38 (1), 120-146.
• Davies, Mark (2018) Changes to the training of English and Welsh lawyers: implications for the future of university law schools. The Law Teacher, 52(1), 100-125
• Davies, Mark (2015) Academic freedom: a lawyer's perspective. Higher Education, 70(6), 987-1002.
• Lee, Barbara A and Davies, Mark R (2014) No more “business as usual” in higher education: implications for U.S. and U.K. faculty. Journal of College and University Law, 40 (3), 499-542.
• Davies, Mark (2010) 'Not an impartial tribunal? English courts and barristers' negligence', Legal Ethics, 13(2), 113-139
• Davies, Mark (2010) ‘The demise of professional self-regulation?: evidence from the ‘ideal type’ professions of medicine and law’, Journal of Professional Negligence, 26(1), 1- 36
• Davies, M., Lee, B.A. (2008) Student disability claims in the UK and USA: does the jurisprudence converge?, Education and the Law, 20(2), 107-150��
• Davies, M. (2005) ‘A new training initiative for the lay magistracy in England and Wales – a further step towards professionalisation?’ International Journal of the Legal Profession, 12(1), 93-119
• Davies, M. (2005) ‘Solicitors – The Last Twenty Years of Self-regulation?’, Professional Negligence 21(1), 2005, 3-26
• Davies, M. (2004) ‘Challenges to `academic immunity'– the beginning of a new era?’, 16 Education and the Law 75-96
• Davies, M. (2003) ‘Regulatory crisis in the solicitors’ profession’, Legal Ethics, 6(2), 185-216

Refereeing and Reviewing: I have been an invited referee/reviewer for a range of organisations and journals, including: Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press; Pearson; Cavendish; Longman; Health Policy;��International Journal of the Legal Profession; Journal of Health Organization and Management; Journal of Law and Society; Medical Law Review; Professional Negligence; Social Science & Medicine; ESRC; Higher Education (Springer);��Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

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