Kenneth Culp Davis | |
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| Born | December 19, 1908 Leeton, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | August 30, 2003 (aged 94) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Spouse | Inger Davis |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Whitman College (BA) Harvard University (LLB) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Administrative Law |
| Institutions | West Virginia University College of Law University of Minnesota Law School University of San Diego Law School |
| Notable works | Administrative Law Treatise, Discretionary Justice |
Kenneth Culp Davis (December 19, 1908 – August 30, 2003) was an American legal scholar remembered as "the father of administrative law."[1] He was a professor of law at West Virginia University from 1935 to 1939, at the University of Texas at Austin from 1940 to 1948, at Harvard University from 1948 to 1950, at the University of Minnesota from 1950 to 1960, at the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1976, and at the University of San Diego from 1976 until his retirement in 1994.[2]
Davis was a prominent figure in the development of American administrative law. He played a major role in the drafting of the Administrative Procedure Act, which the U.S. Congress passed in 1946, and in 1958 he published the first edition of his treatise on administrative law, which remains the primary treatise on the subject.