Michael C. Davis
Michael C. Davis (Chinese name ) is an American academic who currently serves as Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is also an affiliate research scholar at the US Asia Law Institute at New York University, a research associate at Columbia University and the Professor of Law and International Affairs at India's O.P. Jindal Global University. Until stepping down in 2016, he was professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong where, before the National Security Law was imposed in 2020, he would return annually as a visiting professor. He holds degrees from Ohio State University (BA), the University of California (JD) and Yale University (LLM). His books include Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong (forthcoming 2024), Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law (2020), International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (2004), Human Rights and Chinese Values (1995), and Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (1990). His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals in law and political science. Before moving to Hong Kong, as a Hawaii attorney, he worked for the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation on indigenous rights and land use issues. As a public intellectual and human rights advocate in Hong Kong, he was a founder of both the Article 23 Concern Group and the Article 45 Concern Group which led massive protests for human rights in 2003 and 2004. His human rights work has also included a nearly two decade engagement on the Tibet issue and on human rights and development issues across Asia. Academic career 
Davis has held numerous academic positions in several leading academic institutions, including the J. Landis Martin Visiting Professorship in Human Rights at Northwestern University, the Robert and Marion Short Visiting Professorship at Notre Dame University and the Frederick K. Cox Visiting Professorship at Case Western Reserve University, as well as the Schell Senior Fellowship in Human Rights at Yale Law School. He is an affiliate scholar at the Liu Institute for Asia Studies at the University of Notre Dame and was a 2016–2017 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, at the National Endowment for Democracy, where his research related to "resistance movements and constitutionalism in emerging democracies in Asia." Davis held the Wilson Center Residential Fellowship for 2018–2019 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC where his project title was "Reversing the Liberal Retreat and Establishing Constitutionalism in Emerging Democracies in Asia." His contributions to higher education were recognised in the "Award for Distinguished Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Higher Education in India," awarded by the O.P. Jindal Global University in 2015 and in a "Certificate of Commendation" from the International Committee for the Red Cross, in regard to his contribution to the founding in 2011 of the Asian Regional Humanitarian Law Moot Competition. 