Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Erin F. Delaney, Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University College London, UK and Rosalind Dixon, Anthony Mason Professor and Scientia Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney, Australia

‘Contributing to comparative constitutional studies and feminist legal theory, this collection offers food for thought about what differences occur when women—and feminists, not always the same—take leadership roles on high courts, including differences in what leadership actually consists of. Particularly valuable are the essays that bring perspectives from the Global South into the conversation.’

• ContentsList of contributors viii1 Judicial heroines? Comparative and conceptual reflections 1Rosalind Dixon and Erin F. DelaneyPART I  FEMINIST JURISPRUDENTIAL LEADERSHIP2 Beyond formal conceptions of judicial leadership 38Silvia Suteu3 Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court ofMassachusetts 54Vicki C. Jackson4 Emancipation through discourse 82Lisa-Marie Lührs and Samira Akbarian5 Lady Hale—The challenges of being a feminist court president 104Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley6 Justice of the future? Imagining foreign female judicial leadership 129Anna DziedzicPART II  INSTITUTIONAL REFORM: INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING7 Breaking barriers 151Victoria Miyandazi8 Institutional and judicial leadership of the first female chief justice inEthiopia 173Anchinesh Shiferaw9 “What needs to be done?” Susan Denham, Ireland’s great judicial reformer 193Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair10 Feminist tribunal leadership 211Janina Boughey and Lynsey Blayden11 Female judicial leadership at the sub-national level 231Gabrielle Appleby and Heather Roberts12 Czech constitutional heroines 251David Kosař and Katarína ŠipulováPART III  WEATHERING AND RESPONDING TO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS13 Female judicial leadership and constitutional heroism in times ofdemocratic backsliding 272Mariana Velasco-Rivera14 Judicial heroines and constitutional leadership on Malaysia’s apex court 291Yvonne Tew15 Constitutional heroine of South Korea in the historical and constitutionalcontext 314Jeong-In Yun16 Dame Sian Elias and “small c” constitutional heroism 332Elisabeth Perham and Jessica Kerr17 Judicial leadership in a divided society 361Tracy Robinson18 Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno 385Emily Sanchez SalcedoPART IV  INDIVIDUAL, COLLEGIAL, COLLABORATIVE ORCONFORMIST LEADERSHIP?19 Examining Chief Justice McLachlin’s judicial leadership 400Vanessa A. MacDonnell20 Collegiality and feminist leadership 418Gabrielle Appleby and Sarah Murray21 Groundbreakers 442Diletta Tega and Tania Groppi22 Engaged judicial leadership in the Netherlands 473Maartje De Visser and Elaine MakPART V  SILENCE, ABSENCES, AND ANTI-HEROINISM?23 The French Conseil constitutionnel and gender 491Mathilde Cohen24 Gendered silences? The lack of women chief justices in India 518Dipika Jain25 Constitutional anti-heroines? Judge Luz Bulnes and the role of right-wingwomen in Chilean authoritarian constitutionalism 542Marianne González Le Saux and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy26 Becoming chief justice? Gendered fault lines in judicial leadership inSouth Africa 559Cathi Albertyn and Elsje Bonthuys27 Penelope instead of Ulysses? Replacing heroic figures in constitutionaltheories’ myths 579Leticia R. C. Kreuz