Martha Davis is a Professor at Northeastern School of Law, where she co-directs the law school’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and teaches constitutional law, women’s rights, and professional responsibility. Prior to joining the Northeastern faculty, Professor Davis was the Vice President and Legal Director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. A prolific writer, she is co-editor of Bringing Human Rights Home, a three-volume work on the U.S. human rights movement, and author of the prizewinning book, Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement. Professor Davis has served as counsel in many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and she argued Nguyen v. INS, an equal protection case, before the Court. In recent years, Professor Davis has been active in the movement to use international human rights arguments to frame domestic litigation, serving as counsel on several amicus briefs addressing international human rights law before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003, she was awarded a Soros Reproductive Rights Fellowship to study local activists’ use of international human rights norms to address reproductive health and rights of low income women. Professor Davis holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. (Oxon.) from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
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