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.

Contents List of contributors viii 1 Judicial heroines? Comparative and conceptual reflections 1 Rosalind Dixon and Erin F Delaney PART I FEMINIST JURISPRUDENTIAL LEADERSHIP 2 Beyond formal conceptions of judicial leadership: Women on the bench, judicial influence, and judge rapporteurs on the Romanian Constitutional Court 38 Silvia Suteu 3 Margaret H Marshall, Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts: Of foxes, hedgehogs, and humanists 54 Vicki C Jackson 4 Emancipation through discourse: Constitutional heroines at the German Bundesverfassungsgericht 82 Lisa-Marie Lührs and Samira Akbarian 5 Lady Hale—The challenges of being a feminist court president 104 Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley 6 Justice of the future? Imagining foreign female judicial leadership 129 Anna Dziedzic PART II INSTITUTIONAL REFORMINSTITUTIONAL BUILDING 7 Breaking barriers: Kenya’s first female chief justice – Martha Karambu Koome 151 Victoria Miyandazi 8 Institutional and judicial leadership of the first female chief justice in Ethiopia 174 Anchinesh Shiferaw 9 “What needs to be done?” Susan Denham, Ireland’s great judicial reformer 194 Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair 10 Feminist tribunal leadership 212 Janina Boughey and Lynsey Blayden 11 Female judicial leadership at the sub-national level: The pathbreakers redefining judicial values 232 Gabrielle Appleby and Heather Roberts 12 Czech constitutional heroines: Female leadership in transforming post- communist judiciaries 252 David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová PART III WEATHERING AND RESPONDING TO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS 13 Female judicial leadership and constitutional heroism in times of democratic backsliding: Mexico’s Chief Justice Norma Piña 273 Mariana Velasco-Rivera 14 Judicial heroines and constitutional leadership on Malaysia’s apex court 292 Yvonne Tew 15 Constitutional heroine of South Korea in the historical and constitutional context 314 Jeong-In Yun 16 Dame Sian Elias and “small c” constitutional heroism 332 Elisabeth Perham and Jessica Kerr 17 Judicial leadership in a divided society 361 Tracy Robinson 18 Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno: Revered, rejected, remembered 385 Emily Sanchez Salcedo PART IV INDIVIDUAL, COLLEGIAL, COLLABORATIVE OR CONFORMIST LEADERSHIP? 19 Examining Chief Justice McLachlin’s judicial leadership 400 Vanessa A MacDonnell 20 Collegiality and feminist leadership: The Hon Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 419 Gabrielle Appleby and Sarah Murray 21 Groundbreakers: Female justices and presidents in the Italian Constitutional Court 443 Diletta Tega and Tania Groppi 22 Engaged judicial leadership in the Netherlands 474 Maartje De Visser and Elaine Mak PART V SILENCE, ABSENCES AND ANTI-HEROINISM? 23 The French Conseil constitutionnel and gender 492 Mathilde Cohen 24 Gendered silences? The lack of women chief justices in India 519 Dipika Jain 25 Constitutional anti-heroines? Judge Luz Bulnes and the role of right-wing women in Chilean authoritarian constitutionalism 543 Marianne González Le Saux and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy 26 Becoming chief justice? Gendered fault lines in judicial leadership in South Africa 560 Cathi Albertyn and Elsje Bonthuys 27 Penelope instead of Ulysses? Replacing heroic figures in constitutional theories’ myths 579 Leticia R C Kreuz