Martha F. Davis (born 1957) is a professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston.
[1] She authored the book Brutal Need, a study of the welfare rights movement of 1960 to 1973.
in anthropology, magna cum laude from Harvard College (1979), a B.A.
She then became an associate at the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP and was a visiting staff attorney at MFY Legal Services.
Davis joined the faculty at Northeastern University School of Law in 2002.