Erin F. Delaney
Professor of Law on Leave
SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
Francesca Bullerman
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1570
Assistant Email
Francesca.Bullerman@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Erin F. Delaney is Professor of Law on Leave. She is currently the Inaugural Director of the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism and the Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at University College London, Faculty of Laws.
While at Northwestern, Professor Delaney served in various administrative and leadership roles within the Law School and at the University and was honored with a number of teaching awards, including the 2015 Childres Award for outstanding teaching. She taught Constitutional Law, Fourteenth Amendment, the Public Law Colloquium, and Immigration Law.
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Law
- Federalism
- Courts and the Judicial Process
Selected Publications
- Judicial Legitimacy and Federal Judicial Design: Managing Integrity and Autochthony, 132 Yale Law Journal 2419 (2023) (with Gabrielle Appleby).
- The Federal Case for Judicial Review, 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 733 (2022).
- Comparative Judicial Review, co-edited by Erin Delaney and Rosalind Dixon (2018).
- Analyzing Avoidance: Judicial Strategy in Comparative Perspective, 66 Duke Law Journal 1 (2016).
Education
- JD, New York University School of Law
- PhD, University of Cambridge
- MPhil, University of Cambridge
- AB, Harvard College
Prior Appointments
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spring 2023, University College London Faculty of Laws
- Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law, Spring 2020, Harvard Law School
- Associate Dean of Faculty and Research, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Theory and Practice of Constitutionalism and Federalism, Fall 2014, McGill University
- Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- MacCormick Fellow, 2014, Edinburgh Law School
- Academic Fellow and Lecturer-in-Law, Columbia Law School
- Law Clerk, Hon. David H. Souter, Supreme Court of the United States
- Law Clerk, Hon. Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit