In 2013, he was appointed as a Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he taught until assuming his present post at UCL in 2017.
[6][7] Many of Davies' publications have been cited judicially by Commonwealth courts, including those in England and Wales, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
In Marks and Spencer v BNP Paribas [2015] UKSC 72, the UK Supreme Court cited Davies' article, "Recent developments in the Law of Implied Terms" [2010] Lloyds' Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 140, at [24] and [64], and expressed support for the criticism in that article of Lord Hoffmann's judgment in the earlier case of AG of Belize v Belize Telecom [2009] UKPC 10.
These criticisms were also drawn on by the Singapore Court of Appeal in Foo Jong Peng v Phua Kiah Mai [2012] SGCA 55 justifying its decision not to follow Belize Telecom.
In Group Seven v Notable Services [2019] EWCA Civ 614, the Court of Appeal cited Davies' monograph on dishonest assistance (Accessory Liability (2015)) with approval.