ContentsList of contributors viii1 Judicial heroines? Comparative and conceptual reflections 1Rosalind Dixon and Erin F DelaneyPART I FEMINIST JURISPRUDENTIAL LEADERSHIP2 Beyond formal conceptions of judicial leadership: Women on the bench,judicial influence, and judge rapporteurs on the Romanian ConstitutionalCourt 38Silvia Suteu3 Margaret H Marshall, Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court ofMassachusetts: Of foxes, hedgehogs, and humanists 54Vicki C Jackson4 Emancipation through discourse: Constitutional heroines at the GermanBundesverfassungsgericht 82Lisa-Marie Lührs and Samira Akbarian5 Lady Hale--The challenges of being a feminist court president 104Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley6 Justice of the future? Imagining foreign female judicial leadership 129Anna DziedzicPART II INSTITUTIONAL REFORMINSTITUTIONAL BUILDING7 Breaking barriers: Kenya's first female chief justice - Martha KarambuKoome 151Victoria Miyandazi8 Institutional and judicial leadership of the first female chief justice inEthiopia 174Anchinesh Shiferaw9 "What needs to be done?" Susan Denham, Ireland's great judicial reformer 194Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair10 Feminist tribunal leadership 212Janina Boughey and Lynsey Blayden11 Female judicial leadership at the sub-national level: The pathbreakersredefining judicial values 232Gabrielle Appleby and Heather Roberts12 Czech constitutional heroines: Female leadership in transforming post-communist judiciaries 252David Kosar and Katarína SipulováPART III WEATHERING AND RESPONDING TO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS13 Female judicial leadership and constitutional heroism in times ofdemocratic backsliding: Mexico's Chief Justice Norma Piña 273Mariana Velasco-Rivera14 Judicial heroines and constitutional leadership on Malaysia's apex court 292Yvonne Tew15 Constitutional heroine of South Korea in the historical and constitutionalcontext 314Jeong-In Yun16 Dame Sian Elias and "small c" constitutional heroism 332Elisabeth Perham and Jessica Kerr17 Judicial leadership in a divided society 361Tracy Robinson18 Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno: Revered, rejected, remembered 385Emily Sanchez SalcedoPART IV INDIVIDUAL, COLLEGIAL, COLLABORATIVE ORCONFORMIST LEADERSHIP?19 Examining Chief Justice McLachlin's judicial leadership 400Vanessa A MacDonnell20 Collegiality and feminist leadership: The Hon Susan Kiefel AC, ChiefJustice of the High Court of Australia 419Gabrielle Appleby and Sarah Murray21 Groundbreakers: Female justices and presidents in the ItalianConstitutional Court 443Diletta Tega and Tania Groppi22 Engaged judicial leadership in the Netherlands 474Maartje De Visser and Elaine MakPART V SILENCE, ABSENCES AND ANTI-HEROINISM?23 The French Conseil constitutionnel and gender 492Mathilde Cohen24 Gendered silences? The lack of women chief justices in India 519Dipika Jain25 Constitutional anti-heroines? Judge Luz Bulnes and the role of right-wingwomen in Chilean authoritarian constitutionalism 543Marianne González Le Saux and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy26 Becoming chief justice? Gendered fault lines in judicial leadership inSouth Africa 560Cathi Albertyn and Elsje Bonthuys27 Penelope instead of Ulysses? Replacing heroic figures in constitutionaltheories' myths 579Leticia R C Kreuz.