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