Professor Erin F. Delaney

Erin F. Delaney is Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Political Science.

Professor Delaney's scholarship explores constitutionalism in comparative perspective, focusing on federalism and judicial design. She was named the 2022 Federal Scholar in Residence at Eurac Research’s Institute for Comparative Federalism in Bolzano, Italy, and held the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Theory and Practice of Constitutionalism and Federalism at McGill University. She has also held research fellowships at Edinburgh University and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Prior to her position at Northwestern, Professor Delaney was an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School and served as a law clerk to Associate Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States and to Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Law Review. She earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University; her dissertation was awarded the Walter Bagehot Prize from the United Kingdom Political Studies Association for the best dissertation in government and public administration. She graduated with an A.B. in Government, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.