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Towering Judges and Globalization

The article is a Chapter in a forthcoming book titled “Towering Judges”, which is co-edited by Rehan Abeyratne and myself. The book includes chapters on judges, from different countries, that distinguished themselves from the other judges and led their court in different ways. The purpose of my article is to situate the phenomenon of towering judges, discussed in the different chapters of the book in a specific historical and global context. The context is the height of what I will call the liberal-cosmopolitan wave in global politics around the 1990s. Towering judges, I will argue, flourished during that period, and this ideological setting provided a background that was conducive to the formation of towering judges. This context is not relevant to all judges in this book, and to some more than others, but it relevant to many of them.  It is important also because we may be seeing now a global counter-wave or backlash, which raises the question whether the towering judges phenomenon will similarly face a backlash, and how this counter-wave would affect it.