In September 2017, Davis retired fully from service as a judge to become City Solicitor, as Head of the Law Department, of Baltimore.

Concomitantly, he’s had a lifelong interest in the healthy development and well-being of young people, as reflected in his leadership roles in Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Maryland, the Baltimore Urban Debate League, and the youth leadership group Community Law in Action (“CLIA”). District Court for the District of Maryland and as a federal appellate judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.ĭavis has been active in numerous national and international judicial and legal education and Rule of Law training programs, including the Einstein Institute for Science, Health and the Courts the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and the Federal Judicial Center. He is a frequent lecturer on aspects of civil and criminal practice for legal and judicial education and training entities.ĭuring a thirty-year judicial career starting in 1987, Davis served as an Associate Judge on the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City as an Associate Judge on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City as federal district judge on the U.S. Since 1994, he has been a member of the volunteer faculty of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, where he also served as a member of, and for a one-year term, chair of the faculty council. He later was in private practice and, from 1984 until 1987, he was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law. Department of Justice and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, where he handled both civil and criminal cases. Thereafter, he served as an appellate attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. District Court in Baltimore and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Upon graduation from law school, he completed one-year clerkships on the U.S. To read Sir Nicholas’ privacy notice, please see here.Judge Andre Davis (retired) received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D., with honors, from the University of Maryland School of Law. LanguagesSir Nicholas speaks French and Spanish to a reasonable degree of fluency. Since 2017 he was been an associate member of Matrix and has joined the investigations and inquiries team as a consultant. He was appointed a Recorder in 2000 a Deputy High Court Judge in 2002 and became a Bencher of the Middle Temple in the same year. Since 2017 he was been an associate member of Matrix and has joined the investigations and inquiries team as a consultant.Ĭontact Sir Nicholas: | +44 (0)20 7404 3447Ĭontact Sir Nicholas's Practice Team (Team X): Nicholas Blake joined Matrix as a founder member in May 2000 and became its first chair until 2002. In 2017 he was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office He has participated in judicial exchanges in Panama, Peru, Colombia. Over the same period he has been a member of the Franco British Irish Judicial Colloque. He served as the first President of the newly created Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the United Kingdom Upper Tribunal from February 2010 and served until October 2013.įrom January 2014 until May 2017 he represented the judiciary of England and Wales on the International Association of Judges and its regional affiliate the European Association of Judges. In 2007 he was appointed a High Court Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division and assigned to the Administrative Court. He has written and spoken in the UK and internationally on these topics. He specialised in public law, criminal justice, human rights, immigration and asylum and private international law. In December 2005 he was appointed by the Minister of Defence to review the circumstances surrounding the deaths of four young trainees at Deepcut barracks, Surrey resulting in the publication of the Deepcut Review in April 2007. Sir Nicholas Blake joined Matrix as a founder member in May 2000 and became its first chair until 2002.

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