Davis, Mark

A widely consulted and quoted authority on water law and management, Mark Davis joined Tulane Law School in 2007 as a senior research fellow and founding director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy. In 2017 he also became the director of Tulane’s ByWater Institute, which is focused on the interdisciplinary aspects of water stewardship and community resilience. In 2019 he was named the founding director of the Tulane Center for Environmental Law and in 2020 was promoted to research professor. He lectures on water resource management, is directly involved in helping Louisiana overhaul its long-term water planning, and has testified frequently before Congress on the need for a focused and effective commitment to the viability of coastal Louisiana and other vital natural treasures. Davis spent 14 years as executive director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, where he helped shape programs and policies at the state and federal level to improve the stewardship of the wetlands and waters of coastal Louisiana. He has practiced law in Indianapolis, the District of Columbia and Chicago and has taught at the Indiana University (Indianapolis) School of Business and the Illinois Institute of Technology–Chicago Kent School of Law.