Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective

Name: Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035308637
Price: 3341.65 HKD
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Author: Rosalind Dixon; Erin F. Delaney
ISBN: 9781035308637

Edited by Rosalind Dixon · Erin F. Delaney

New Arrival Edward Elgar Publishing May 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781035308637
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: May 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book investigates the role of female judicial leaders of courts worldwide, by exploring their contributions to constitutional guardianship as well as feminist institutional and jurisprudential change.

Leading scholars outline the origins and significance of the steadily growing number of female chief justices and court presidents across the globe. They provide valuable insights into the conditions that support increased female participation and representation in law and public life, as well as ongoing challenges and barriers. Chapters draw on perspectives from both common and civil law, as well as feminist constitutional theory, covering topics such as judicial responses to democratic backsliding, comparative leadership styles, right-wing female actors in authoritarian regimes, and gendered silences in judicial histories. The book explores the notion of feminist judicial heroines, emphasising the difference between female versus feminist judges.

This book is an exceptional resource for legal scholars and students with interests in gender and feminist dimensions of constitutionalism. It is also an essential read for judges and lawyers interested in the history and future of feminist jurisprudence.

1.
Judicial heroines? Comparative and conceptual reflections 1: Rosalind Dixon and Erin F Delaney; PART I FEMINIST JURISPRUDENTIAL LEADERSHIP; 2.
Beyond formal conceptions of judicial leadership: Women on the bench, judicial influence, and judge rapporteurs on the Romanian Constitutional Court 38: Silvia Suteu; 3.
Margaret H Marshall, Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts: Of foxes, hedgehogs, and humanists 54: Vicki C Jackson; 4.
Emancipation through discourse: Constitutional heroines at the German Bundesverfassungsgericht 82: Lisa-Marie Lührs and Samira Akbarian; 5.
Lady Hale—The challenges of being a feminist court president 104: Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley; 6.
Justice of the future? Imagining foreign female judicial leadership 129: Anna Dziedzic; PART II INSTITUTIONAL REFORMINSTITUTIONAL BUILDING; 7.
Breaking barriers: Kenya’s first female chief justice – Martha Karambu Koome 151: Victoria Miyandazi; 8.
Institutional and judicial leadership of the first female chief justice in Ethiopia 174: Anchinesh Shiferaw; 9.
“What needs to be done?” Susan Denham, Ireland’s great judicial reformer 194: Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair; 10.
Feminist tribunal leadership 212: Janina Boughey and Lynsey Blayden; 11.
Female judicial leadership at the sub-national level: The pathbreakers redefining judicial values 232: Gabrielle Appleby and Heather Roberts; 12.
Czech constitutional heroines: Female leadership in transforming post-communist judiciaries 252: David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová; PART III WEATHERING AND RESPONDING TO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS; 13.
Female judicial leadership and constitutional heroism in times of democratic backsliding: Mexico’s Chief Justice Norma Piña 273: Mariana Velasco-Rivera; 14.
Judicial heroines and constitutional leadership on Malaysia’s apex court 292: Yvonne Tew; 15.
Constitutional heroine of South Korea in the historical and constitutional context 314: Jeong-In Yun; 16.
Dame Sian Elias and “small c” constitutional heroism 332: Elisabeth Perham and Jessica Kerr; 17.
Judicial leadership in a divided society 361: Tracy Robinson; 18.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno: Revered, rejected, remembered 385: Emily Sanchez Salcedo; PART IV INDIVIDUAL, COLLEGIAL, COLLABORATIVE OR CONFORMIST LEADERSHIP?; 19.
Examining Chief Justice McLachlin’s judicial leadership 400: Vanessa A MacDonnell; 20.
Collegiality and feminist leadership: The Hon Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 419: Gabrielle Appleby and Sarah Murray; 21.
Groundbreakers: Female justices and presidents in the Italian Constitutional Court 443: Diletta Tega and Tania Groppi; 22.
Engaged judicial leadership in the Netherlands 474: Maartje De Visser and Elaine Mak; PART V SILENCE, ABSENCES AND ANTI-HEROINISM?; 23.
The French Conseil constitutionnel and gender 492: Mathilde Cohen; 24.
Gendered silences? The lack of women chief justices in India 519: Dipika Jain; 25.
Constitutional anti-heroines? Judge Luz Bulnes and the role of right-wing women in Chilean authoritarian constitutionalism 543: Marianne González Le Saux and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy; 26.
Becoming chief justice? Gendered fault lines in judicial leadership in South Africa 560: Cathi Albertyn and Elsje Bonthuys; 27.
Penelope instead of Ulysses? Replacing heroic figures in constitutional theories’ myths 579: Leticia R C Kreuz