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Lecture

Judge Dennis Davis
Film: Dry White Season

Sunday 8.10.2023

Summary

Judge Dennis Davis plumbs the depths of apartheid despair as illustrated in the 1989 American film “Dry White Season” starring Donald Sutherland and Marlon Brando.

Judge Dennis Davis

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Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.