Erin F. Delaney
Professor of Law

Phone
(312) 503-0925
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 with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Political Science. From January 2023, she will be on leave for the semester as the Distinguished Visiting Professor at University College London Faculty of Laws.
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Law
- Federalism
- Courts and the Judicial Process
Selected Publications
- The Federal Case for Judicial Review, ___ Oxford Journal of Legal Studies ___ (2022).
- The UK’s Basic Structure Doctrine: Miller II and Judicial Power in Comparative Perspective, 12 Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law 22 (2022).
- The European Constitution and Europe’s Dialectical Federalism, in The Rise and Fall of The European Constitution, edited by N.W. Barber, Maria Cahill & Richard Ekins (2019).
- 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
- 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