Megan Jane Davis AC FAHA FASSA FAAL (born October 1975) is a Scientia Professor, international human rights lawyer and constitutional law expert.

[11] Professor Davis specialises in Indigenous peoples and the law, democracy, and the constitutional recognition of First Nations.

[13] She designed the Referendum Council’s deliberative process[14] that led to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and has been a leading expert on the recognition of First Nations peoples for two decades.

[21] She was brought up by a single mother[22] and one of her earliest interests was the Australian Constitution[23] and the United Nations General Assembly.

[25] In this period she met and was mentored by Jackie Huggins, who convinced her to work for the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA) in Brisbane, which led her to apply to the United Nations Fellowship.

[25] Davis was an international lawyer at the United Nations, where in the period from 1999 until 2004 she helped work on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including providing legal advice to ATSIC Commissioners during the drafting stages.

[26] Davis was on the Australian Government's Expert Panel on the Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution in 2011,[28] and was a member of the Prime Minister's Referendum Council from 2015-2017.

[35] Davis has extensive experience on Indigenous peoples and reform of regulatory systems including as a Commissioner on the QLD Commission of Inquiry into Youth Detention Centres in 2016 alongside co-Commissioner Kathryn McMillan KC.