Towering Judges

Rehan Abeyratne is an Associate Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on comparative constitutional law. His published works have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and in edited volumes from Cambridge University Press and other scholarly publishers. Iddo Porat is an Associate Professor of Law at the College of Law and Business, Israel. He specializes in constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and legal theory. His books include Proportionality and Constitutional Culture (with Moshe Cohen-Eliya, Cambridge 2013).

• Introduction Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat; 1. Towering judges and global constitutionalism Iddo Porat; 2. The landscapes that towering judges tower over Mark Tushnet; 3. Sir Anthony Mason: towering over the high court of Australia Gabrielle Appleby and Andrew Lynch; 4. Canada's most towering judge of all; 5. Lady Hale: a feminist towering judge Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley; 6. Hugh Kennedy: Ireland's (quietly) towering nation-maker Tom Daly; 7. Judicial rhetoric of a liberal policy: Hong Kong, 1997–2012 C. L. Lim; 8. Judicial minimalism as towering: Singapore's chief justice Chan Sek Keong Jaclyn L Neo and Kevin Y. L. Tan; 9. Nepal's most towering judge: the honourable Kalyan Shrestha Mara Malagodi; 10. Barak's legal revolutions and what remains of them: authoritarian abuse of the judiciary-empowerment revolution in Israel Alon Harel; 11. P. N. Bhagwati and the transformation of India's judiciary Rehan Abeyratne; 12. Justice Cepeda's institution-building on the Colombian constitutional court: a fusion of the political and the legal David Landau; 13. A towering but modest judicial figure: the case of Arthur Chaskalson Dennis M Davis; 14. Chief justice Sólyom and the paradox of 'revolution under the rule of law' Gábor Attila Tóth; 15. The socialist model of individual judicial powers Bui Ngoc Son; 16. The civil law tradition, the Pinochet constitution, and judge Eugenio Valenzuela Sergio Verdugo; 17. Towering versus collegial judges: a comparative reflection Rosalind Dixon; Appendix; Index.

‘An important, fascinating and sophisticated discussion of the capacity of a larger than life judge to impact a legal system. Iddo Porat, Rehan Abeyratne, and a team of superstar scholars explore the different ways in which one person in a position of judicial authority can and cannot bring about fundamental legal change.’ Mark Graber, Regents Professor, University System of Maryland; Author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism