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Lecture

Judge Dennis Davis
The Politics of Them and Us

Thursday 14.01.2021

Summary

A penetrating overview of the current crisis of constitutional democracies influenced by post-truth paradigm and media manipulation, highlighting the manipulation of history and media in Germany and India, the storming of the US Capitol, and the need for constitutional education to preserve constitutional democracy.

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.