Essex Court Chambers is pleased to announce that Professor Paul Davies has been elected to the Downing Professorship of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge.
The Downing Professorship was founded in 1800 pursuant to a bequest in the will of Sir George Downing, founder of Downing College. Distinguished former holders of the chair include Andrew Amos, F. W. Maitland, Sir William Ivor Jennings, Stanley de Smith, Gareth Jones, Sir John Baker, and Dame Sarah Worthington. The most recent incumbent was Lionel Smith.
Professor Davies was an undergraduate at Downing College and began his academic career as a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and Newton Trust Lecturer in the Cambridge Law Faculty. He was subsequently a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, before taking up the UCL Chair in Commercial Law in 2017. In 2020, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law.
At Essex Court Chambers, Professor Davies has a broad commercial practice, with particular expertise in contract, trusts, remedies, and economic torts. He has been instructed in proceedings before a wide range of tribunals, including the Commercial Court, the Chancery Division, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, and the Privy Council, and regularly appears in commercial arbitrations.
All at Essex Court congratulate Paul on his election.
