Professor Megan Davis

Megan Davis AC FASSA FAHA FAAL is the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University and is Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School 2024/2025. 

In 2025, Professor Davis was appointed to Australia’s highest civilian award, the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for eminent service to the law.

Professor Davis is an Acting Commissioner of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court.

Professor Davis is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (2012), the Australian Academy of Social Sciences (2017) and the Australian Academy of Humanities (2023). 

Prof Davis has been named on TIME Magazine’s TIME NEXT100 list of the Next Generation of Global leaders, Marie Claire “Powerhouse of the Year”, Overall Winner of the Australian Financial Review’s (AFR) Women of Influence Leadership awards and overall national winner of the AFR Public Policy category, Australian Financial Review’s Annual Australian Top Ten Cultural Power list and named one of Australia’s Top 5 Legal Powerbrokers by the AFR (2023).

Megan is a UNSW Scientia Professor and the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at UNSW Sydney. Prof Davis is also a Bok Visiting International Professor, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Penn Carey Law) for 2025-2026.

Prof Davis is actively involved in sports governance and sports administration in Australia for the NRL or the National Rugby League. The NRL plays its first round of the NRL season in Las Vegas each year. 

Megan is a Commissioner on the Australian Rugby League Commission, a director on the North Qld Cowboys Community Foundation Board, a Commissioner for South Australian Rugby League and formerly director on the Western Australia Rugby League Commission.