Judge Dennis Davis
About Judge Dennis Davis
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.
Dennis’s lectures (113)
Date
Title
2 January
The Marx Brothers Part, 2
9 January
Amadeus, Part 1
11 January
Amadeus, Part 2
14 January
The Politics of Them and Us
16 January
Descent into Authoritarianism: Cabaret, The Crucible, and Hamlet, Part 1
20 January
The Politics of Them and Us (Repeat)
23 January
Descent into Authoritarianism: Cabaret, The Crucible, and Hamlet, Part 2
6 March
Walter Benjamin: A Renaissance Jewish Intellect of the 20th Century, Part 1
13 March
Walter Benjamin: A Renaissance Jewish Intellect of the 20th Century, Part 2
18 March
Beethoven: Understanding the Revolution in Music
30 March
Justice Albie Sachs in Conversation with Judge Dennis Davis: The Life Dedicated to the Pursuit of Freedom
30 March
The Jewish Concept of Freedom and Reconciliation
10 April
The Circle of Evil: Wannsee Seen Through the Prism of the Film 'Conspiracy'
17 April
Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil
21 April
Beethoven: The Revolutionary 6th and 9th Symphonies
25 April
Judge Dennis Davis and Professor David Peimer in Conversation with Elisha Wiesel
4 May
Transforming Countries into Democracies: South Africa and More Recent Cases
5 May
Judge Dennis Davis in Conservation with Philippe Sands on his New Book, "The Ratline"
8 May
Fascination with Fascism: Then and Now
15 May
Representations of the Holocaust in Film, Part 1
22 May
Representations of the Holocaust in Film, Part 2
29 May
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Part 1
3 June
Dmitri Shostakovich
5 June
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Part 2
13 June
Revisiting the Zionism/Racism Debate in the Present Climate, Part 1
20 June
Revisiting the Zionism/Racism Debate in the Present Climate, Part 2
10 July
The UN Declaration of Human Rights: What Does it Say to Us Today?
7 August
George Bizet: Unravelling the Popular Opera "Carmen", Plus the Great Duet
12 August
Representations of Lawyers in Film: To Kill A Mockingbird and Inherit the Wind
19 August
Representations of Juries in Film: 12 Angry Men and The Trial of the Chicago 7
2 September
The Romanticism of Sergei Rachmaninoff: Exploring the Second and Third Piano Concertos
12 September
When They Came for Me: The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner
12 September
Repentance, Reconciliation, and the Lessons of the High Holy Days for the Contemporary World
14 September
A Journey Through the Music and Meaning of the Kol Nidrei Service
25 September
To Ban or Not to Ban: Literature, Law and Freedom of Speech
17 October
Music Meets Modern Orthodoxy: A Tribute to Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
28 October
A Man for All Seasons
7 November
The Lion in Winter
11 November
Shostakovich 7: The Leningrad Symphony
4 December
Cromwell: the Movie
6 December
The Origins of International Law
29 December
Cantorial Music