Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges

Edited by Rehan Abeyratne · Iddo Porat
Cambridge University Press September 2022

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9781108794145
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Cambridge University Press
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September 2022
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges, Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat lead an exploration of a new topic in comparative constitutional law: towering judges. The volume examines the work of nineteen judges from fourteen jurisdictions, each of whom stood out individually among their fellow judges and had a unique impact on the trajectory of constitutional law. The chapters ask: what makes a towering judge; what are the background conditions that foster or deter the rise of towering judges; are towering judges, on balance, positive or detrimental for constitutional systems; how do towering judges differ from one jurisdiction to another; how do political and historical developments relate to this phenomenon; and how does all of this fit within global constitutionalism? The answers to these questions offer important insight into how these judges were able to shine to an uncommon degree in a profession where individualism is not always looked on favourably.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat
1. Towering judges and global constitutionalism
Iddo Porat
2. The landscapes that towering judges tower over
Mark Tushnet
3. Sir Anthony Mason: towering over the high court of Australia
Gabrielle Appleby and Andrew Lynch
4. Canada's most towering judge of all
5. Lady Hale: a feminist towering judge
Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley
6. Hugh Kennedy: Ireland's (quietly) towering nation-maker
Tom Daly
7. Judicial rhetoric of a liberal policy: Hong Kong, 1997–2012
C.L. Lim
8. Judicial minimalism as towering: Singapore's chief justice Chan Sek Keong
Jaclyn L Neo and Kevin Y. L. Tan
9. Nepal's most towering judge: the honourable Kalyan Shrestha
Mara Malagodi
10. Barak's legal revolutions and what remains of them: authoritarian abuse of the judiciary-empowerment revolution in Israel
Alon Harel
11. P.N. Bhagwati and the transformation of India's judiciary
Rehan Abeyratne
12. Justice Cepeda's institution-building on the Colombian constitutional court: a fusion of the political and the legal
David Landau
13. A towering but modest judicial figure: the case of Arthur Chaskalson
Dennis M Davis
14. Chief justice Sólyom and the paradox of 'revolution under the rule of law'
Gábor Attila Tóth
15. The socialist model of individual judicial powers
Bui Ngoc Son
16. The civil law tradition, the Pinochet constitution, and judge
Eugenio Valenzuela Sergio Verdugo
17. Towering versus collegial judges: a comparative reflection
Rosalind Dixon
Appendix
Index7
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