Maddie Davis
@madavis709.bsky.social
PhD student reading and writing about law, cultural heritage, and legal history. Lawyer and history lover (perpetually).
I’m very excited to be presenting at the upcoming International Society of Public Law (ICON•S) annual conference in Dublin! I’ll be talking about the interface between community identity, nationalism, and public law in Canadian cultural property legislation.
January 8, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I’m very excited to be presenting at the upcoming International Society of Public Law (ICON•S) annual conference in Dublin! I’ll be talking about the interface between community identity, nationalism, and public law in Canadian cultural property legislation.
The 1950 Waverley Report is available online for the first time. It's an incredibly important document for understanding post-war Britain's anxiety about the loss of "national treasures" through export, mostly to the US and laws that were adopted as a result.
www.historichouses.org/cultural-her...
www.historichouses.org/cultural-her...
Marking 75 Years of Cultural Heritage Policy - Historic Houses
Historic Houses reflects on the impact of the Gowers and Waverley reports on cultural heritage policy
www.historichouses.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The 1950 Waverley Report is available online for the first time. It's an incredibly important document for understanding post-war Britain's anxiety about the loss of "national treasures" through export, mostly to the US and laws that were adopted as a result.
www.historichouses.org/cultural-her...
www.historichouses.org/cultural-her...
It's a bit of a belated update, but my full LLM thesis is available on Osgoode Digital Commons: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/llm/65/. I talk about the cultural heritage and law, the history of Canada's cultural property export controls, and the authorized heritage discourse.
Canada’s Cultural Property Export Controls: An Analysis of the Colonial and Heritage Discourses that Animate the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
This thesis critiques Canada’s Cultural Property Export and Import Act (CPEIA) and its framing as a legal instrument intended to protect and preserve Canada’s cultural heritage. It focuses on the expo...
digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca
May 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It's a bit of a belated update, but my full LLM thesis is available on Osgoode Digital Commons: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/llm/65/. I talk about the cultural heritage and law, the history of Canada's cultural property export controls, and the authorized heritage discourse.