Lecture
Judge Dennis Davis
Reds Under the Bed: The Witch Hunts and HUAC
Summary
In this lecture, Judge Dennis Davis explores McCarthyism, the period in the 1950s commonly known as the ‘Red Scare’, and asks how can it inform and address the democratic erosion happening today?
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.