Bethany Davis
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Bethany Davis

Titles

  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Executive Director, MAPLE Initiative

Degrees

  • JD, Stanford Law School
  • BA, Barnard College

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Biography

Bethany Davis (she/her) is the executive director of the MAPLE Initiative and a visiting assistant professor. Bethany is an environmental and administrative law expert with extensive experience in academia, state government, and private practice.

Bethany was born in Costa Rica and spent her childhood in Venezuela. She received a JD with distinction from Stanford Law School and a BA, magna cum laude, from Barnard College.

She began her legal career as a clerk to the Honorable Chester J. Straub in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and for the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin in the District Court for the Southern District of New York. She then worked as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and served as Assistant Solicitor General in the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where she filed briefs in major environmental cases in the Supreme Court and earned the Louis J. Lefkowitz Memorial Award for her work.

Following her time in the Attorney General’s Office, she worked at NYU School of Law as the litigation director of the Institute for Policy Integrity and then executive director of the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center.

Expertise

  • Administrative Law
  • Environmental Law
  • State and Government Law

Departments

  • Faculty
  • MAPLE Initiative