Jeffrey Davis

Jeffrey Davis is the Gerald A. Sohn Research Scholar and Professor of Law for the University of Florida Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Fla., and has specialized in contract, commercial and bankruptcy law since 1973, having publishing numerous articles on consumer credit, bankruptcy and banking law. He taught at the University of South Dakota, Rutgers-Camden University and New York University Law Schools before joining the University of Florida faculty in 1981. Prof. Davis is a mem- ber of the California, Florida and American Bar Associations. He is a past chair of the Bankruptcy/UCC Committee of the Business Section of the Florida Bar, and regularly serves on the Legislation Commit- tee of the Executive Council of the Business Law Section. From 1995-2001, he served as the reporter for the Business Section's Special Committee on Post-Judgment Creditors' Remedies and was the principal drafter of the Florida Judgment Lien Statute. In recent years, he has received the Florida Law School Professor of the Year Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Business Law Section of the Florida Bar, and has written about Florida's new Judgment Lien Statute, the use of the in pari delicto defense in bankruptcy cases, the amendments to Florida's assignment-for-the-benefit-of-creditors law, protection of charities from avoidance of donations as fraudulent conveyances, and the first steps taken by the U.S. and Australia to regulate the decision to grant consumer credit. Prof. Davis received his B.S. in 1965 from the University of California, Los Angeles, his J.D. in 1972 from Loyola Law School and his LL.M. in 1973 from the University of Michigan.