Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis joined Pacific Legal Foundation as a senior legal fellow in 2024, where his scholarship focuses on constitutional law and property rights. Steve is a frequent speaker at legal seminars, such as the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Seminar, and he serves on the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Project advisory council at William & Mary Law School. He has served as an adjunct professor at Saint Louis University Law School

Prior to joining PLF, Steve litigated property-rights and election-law cases in private practice for over a decade, where he represented hundreds of landowners across the country in federal inverse condemnation claims. He has served on litigation teams at the U.S Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, and Federal Circuits, and has authored or co-authored many amicus briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court. Steve also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, where he litigated civil rights, tort, and employment discrimination cases in the Eastern District of Missouri and the Eighth Circuit. Steve began his legal career in the Missouri legislature, serving as the elected Chief Clerk and Administrator of the Missouri House of Representatives. While in law school, Steve clerked for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

• JD, University of Missouri School of Law, (Missouri Law Review, Missouri Environmental Law and Policy Review), 1999 
• BA, Brigham Young University, 1995