Towering Judges

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.