Ande Davis

Ande Davis (Cherokee Nation) joined the Southwestern Law School faculty in 2025, teaching evidence. An experienced educator, Professor Davis spent more than a dozen years teaching college-level composition, literature, and creative writing classes at several colleges and universities around the Midwest, where he won several teaching awards. Before coming to Southwestern, he served as the first teaching fellow at Washburn University School of Law, where he taught courses in property, evidence, professional responsibility, legal writing, and federal Indian Law. In November 2024, Professor Davis was the first law faculty member to receive the Achieving Excellence Award from the Washburn University Student Life office, an honor that comes from student nominations. Before joining Washburn Law’s faculty, Professor Davis clerked for the Honorable Daniel Crabtree in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.

Professor Davis’s scholarship uses his backgrounds in ethnic studies and cultural studies to engage in interdisciplinary work that looks at civil rights, critical race theory, federal Indian law, and tribal law, and their intersections with representation in popular media. His current research looks at various issues such as anti-critical race theory statutes, state ICWA laws, courts’ and executives’ framing of tribal sovereignty, and futurism’s potential impact on developing law and jurisprudence. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Northeastern University Law Review, Washburn Law Journal, Chiricú Journal, and various anthology chapters.

While in law school, Professor Davis worked as a peer mentor and an academic fellow, providing tutoring for students needing assistance with their courses. He also served as an officer for the school NALSA chapter, the Rainbow Bar, and the Diversity and Inclusion Board, as well as sitting on the Dean’s Diversity Council and the law journal editorial board. He interned for Chief Justice Marla Luckert of the Kansas Supreme Court, the National Labor Relations Board, and the firm of Kuckelman Torline Kirkland. Professor Davis also received the Romano-Dril Award for Top First-Year Student, the Top Note Award for the Washburn Law Journal, and Frank Rice Scholarship from the Kansas Bar Foundation. 

Born in the Bay Area, Professor Davis spent portions of his formative years in California, Kansas, Iowa, and Minnesota. Besides teaching, his past experiences include work as a communications specialist, magazine editor, pizza cook and delivery driver, grain elevator employee, fast food worker, and a stint as drummer in a rock band. He’s excited to be part of Southwestern and get to know the legal community of Southern California.