Judicial leadership in a divided society

Tracy Robinson

Chapter 17 in Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective, 2026, pp 361-384 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the judicial leadership of Roxane George, who between 2017 and 2025 was the acting Chief Justice of Guyana, a divided society with chronic rule of law challenges and insecure tenure for its foremost judicial leaders. George CJ's (Ag) leadership in contentious electoral and political cases, sitting alone in Guyana's High Court, highlights how first instance superior court judging is a valuable arena for gaining insight on gender and judicial leadership. This Guyana study suggests that the community leadership of women judges and their participation in feminist organisational spaces may be foundational political practice that has a bearing on their resilience in negotiating precarious judicial leadership. It also reveals a less considered dimension of judicial leadership in the Global South. The management of justice improvement projects, funded by international donors, with feminist goals, has become a mode of feminist judging very different to the self-directed and independent activity of feminist judgment writing.

Keywords: Divided societies; Crisis leadership; Political cases; Feminist community leadership; Feminist international development assistance; Guyana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035308637
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