Professor Davis focuses her research on the ways in which tax law and policy are influenced by cultural context, particularly the impact on families. Her research interests include tax-exempt organizations, comparative tax law and taxation in developing nations. Her current research explores the intersection of kinship theory and conceptions of family in the Internal Revenue Code. Her scholarship has appeared in the Denver Law Review, the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, the Florida State University Law Review, the Savannah Law Review, the Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender, the Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, and the George Mason Law Review. In addition, she has been an invited speaker at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Savannah Law School, and Davidson College.