Justice of the future? Imagining foreign female judicial leadership

Anna Dziedzic

Chapter 6 in Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective, 2026, pp 129-149 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Foreignness and gender are identity characteristics that have been imbued with a range of social meanings, and the intersection of the two sheds new light on understandings of judicial leadership. This chapter presents the experiences of Mabel Agyemang and Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen, two female judges who have held formal leadership positions on courts outside their home countries. Drawing together career biographies, the judges’ own personal reflections and writings, and theoretical work on the symbolic politics of foreignness and gender, this chapter shows how the intersection of foreignness and gender highlights and complicates three aspects of judicial leadership: its public and private dimensions, reform-orientated understandings of judicial service, and individualistic classifications of “heroic” and “towering” judicial leaders.

Keywords: Judicial leadership; Women judges; Foreign judges; Court reform; Law and literature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035308637
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