Seth Davis

Climenko Fellow

Lecturer on Law

Additional Information

Mr. Davis will teach a section of First Year Legal Research and Writing in both the Fall 2012 and the Spring 2013 terms.

Biographical Statement

Seth Davis's scholarship focuses upon the institutional design of administrative agencies and the role of federalism in the modern administrative state. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, in Anthropology and English from Davidson College, his MSc, with distinction, in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he received the John Ordronaux Prize, as well as the Samuel I. Rosenman Prize for leadership and scholarship in public law. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Following his clerkship, Seth served as a volunteer legal intern at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia and then as a litigation associate at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, where he specialized in appellate litigation and financial services regulatory law.

Representative Publications

• "Conditional Preemption, Commandeering, and the Values of Cooperative Federalism: An Analysis of Section 216 of EPAct," 108 Colum. L. Rev. 404 (2008)