Martin J. Davies

Martin Davies is an international authority on admiralty law who has taught in Australia, Azerbaijan, China, England, Singapore and Italy as well as the United States. He joined the Tulane Law School faculty in 2000 after a visiting appointment in 1999. He previously taught at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he was Harrison Moore Professor of Law. Davies, who has been a professional actor, also has worked as a consultant for maritime law firms for 35 years and is presently engaged by an international law firm with a maritime law practice in many countries. He serves on the Editorial Board of Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, and the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, as well as several other international journals. In addition to admiralty, he teaches in the areas of transnational litigation, international commercial arbitration, international sale of goods, the law of contract, and torts. He has written (or co-written) books on maritime law, international trade law, private international law (conflict of laws), international sale of goods and torts. He received the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award from the Tulane Law School graduating class in 2003, 2011, and 2023. He was chosen for a Tulane University President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012. He is a Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and holds the degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL), a higher doctorate awarded by the University of Oxford.