Lecture
Judge Dennis Davis
Clarence Darrow
Summary
Clarence Darrow ranks as one of the greatest lawyers of the 20th century. This lecture seeks to explore this claim by examining his legal record, including, among others, the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 and the Leopold and Loeb murders of 1924.
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.