Adrienne Davis is the Reef C. Ivey II Research Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law where she teaches property, contracts, trusts and estates, and a variety of upper-level legal theory courses, including sex equality, law and literature, and slavery. Her scholarship emphasizes the gendered and private law dimensions of American slavery. She also does work on conceptions of justice and reparations and work/family conflict. She is recipient of two grants from the Ford Foundation, the most recent administered through Brandeis University's Feminist Sexual Ethics Project to research women, slavery, sexuality, and religion; she was also a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center. She is a member of the boards of the Center of the Study for the American South and the cultural studies program at the University of North Carolina, former editor of the Journal of Legal Education and Law and History Review, and past chair of the law and humanities section of the American Association of Law Schools.

Lecture topics:

• U.S. Slavery (particularly gender and slavery)
• Women's Legal History
• Property
• African American Legal History
• Reparations
• Intersections of History and Critical Theory

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