Professor Mary J. Davis

Mary J Davis is the Ashland-Inc., Spears Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law.  She is Dean Emerita, having served as Dean from 2019 to 2024.  She has been on the faculty since 1991 teaching Torts, Products Liabiltiy, Conflict of Laws, and Complex Litigation.  She has written several articles in the field of Products Liabitliy concentrating on federal preemption.  She has served as Advisor to the Restatement Third of Torts project on Intentional Torts and Members Consultative Group member to the Products Liability Restatement and the Torts Restatement, General Principles.  She is co-author of Products Liability and Torts caseooks and a Products Liability treatise.