Wade Davis

Teaching

• Legal Environment of Business (BLAW 200 and MBA 623)
• Contracts and Professional Responsibility (BLAW 450)
• Employment Law (BLAW 452)
• Environmental Law (BLAW 474)
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (BLAW 477 and MBA 663)
• International Law and Politics: European Study Tour (BLAW 492)

Professional Excellence

• Juris Doctorate, University of Iowa
• Master’s of Arts, Arizona State University
• Licensed Attorney in Minnesota’s State and Federal Courts, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Representative Research

• Wade Davis & Jeffrey Post, Damages in Business Tort Actions, in Minnesota Business Disputes: Claims and Remedies (Minnesota CLE, 3d ed., 2025 Rev. and Supp.).
• Wade Davis, Todd Lundquist & Katheryn Zielinski, Stripping Down the Law: Teaching Worker Classification Through Exotic Dancer Litigation, 35 Midwest Law Journal 30 (2025).
• Wade Davis, “That’s What She Said:” Using “The Office” to Teach Sexual Harassment Law, 34 Southern Law Journal 157 (Fall 2024).
• Wade Davis & Todd Lindquist, Corporate Raiding, Secrets, and the Domination of the Chip Industry: An Analysis of Apple Inc. v. Rivos Inc. et al, 55 Business Law Review 1 (Spring 2024).
• Wade Davis & Jeffrey Post, Practical Strategies to Protect Corporate Trade Secrets and Avoid Misappropriation Claims, 32 Southern Law Journal 58 (Fall 2022).
• Jessica Magaldi, Jonathan Sales & Wade. Davis, All’s Fair in Love and War but Nothing’s Fair Use on YouTube: How YouTube Policies Favor Copyright Owners and Hinder Legal Fair Use, 27 JOURNAL OF LAW, BUSINESS & ETHICS 50 (Winter 2021). 

Commitment to Student Success

• Minnesota Supreme Court Field Trip
• Advise Student Research

Service and Outreach

• Conciliation Court Referee for Blue Earth County Court
• University Honors Council
• Minnesota State Bar Examiners, Alternative to Pathways to Bar Admission Committee

Awards and Honors

• Visiting Scholar, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
• Named a “Minnesota Attorney of the Year” by Minnesota Lawyer