Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Erin F. Delaney and Rosalind Dixon

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Judicial Leadership; Chief Justices; Female; Feminism; Constitutions; Heroism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035308637
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Judicial heroines? Comparative and conceptual reflections

Rosalind Dixon and Erin F. Delaney

Ch 2 Beyond formal conceptions of judicial leadership

Silvia Suteu

Ch 3 Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

Vicki C. Jackson

Ch 4 Emancipation through discourse

Lisa-Marie Lührs and Samira Akbarian

Ch 5 Lady Hale—The challenges of being a feminist court president

Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley

Ch 6 Justice of the future? Imagining foreign female judicial leadership

Anna Dziedzic

Ch 7 Breaking barriers

Victoria Miyandazi

Ch 8 Institutional and judicial leadership of the first female chief justice in Ethiopia

Anchinesh Shiferaw

Ch 9 “What needs to be done?”1 Susan Denham, Ireland's great judicial reformer

Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair

Ch 10 Feminist tribunal leadership

Janina Boughey and Lynsey Blayden

Ch 11 Female judicial leadership at the sub-national level

Gabrielle Appleby and Heather Roberts

Ch 12 Czech constitutional heroines

David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová

Ch 13 Female judicial leadership and constitutional heroism in times of democratic backsliding

Mariana Velasco-Rivera

Ch 14 Judicial heroines and constitutional leadership on Malaysia's apex court

Yvonne Tew

Ch 15 Constitutional heroine of South Korea in the historical and constitutional context

Jeong-In Yun

Ch 16 Dame Sian Elias and “small c” constitutional heroism

Elisabeth Perham and Jessica Kerr

Ch 17 Judicial leadership in a divided society

Tracy Robinson

Ch 18 Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno

Emily Sanchez Salcedo

Ch 19 Examining Chief Justice McLachlin's judicial leadership

Vanessa A. MacDonnell

Ch 20 Collegiality and feminist leadership

Gabrielle Appleby and Sarah Murray

Ch 21 Groundbreakers

Diletta Tega and Tania Groppi

Ch 22 Engaged judicial leadership in the Netherlands

Maartje De Visser and Elaine Mak

Ch 23 The French Conseil constitutionnel and gender

Mathilde Cohen

Ch 24 Gendered silences? The lack of women chief justices in India

Dipika Jain

Ch 25 Constitutional anti-heroines? Judge Luz Bulnes and the role of right-wing women in Chilean authoritarian constitutionalism

Marianne González Le Saux and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy

Ch 26 Becoming chief justice? Gendered fault lines in judicial leadership in South Africa

Cathi Albertyn and Elsje Bonthuys

Ch 27 Penelope instead of Ulysses? Replacing heroic figures in constitutional theories’ myths

Leticia R. C. Kreuz

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