Kenneth Culp Davis

Kenneth Culp Davis (December 19, 1908 to August 30, 2003) was an American legal scholar remembered as the father of administrative law, who taught at West Virginia University, the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard, the University of Minnesota, the University of Chicago, and the University of San Diego over a career spanning six decades. He played a major role in drafting the Administrative Procedure Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1946, and in 1958 he published the first edition of his treatise on administrative law, which remained the field's primary treatise.