Rate My Professor Louise Delany

Delany's academic interests center on public health law and global health law. Her research addresses the law and ethics of communicable disease control, pandemics and emergencies, noncommunicable diseases linked to tobacco and alcohol—which carry international dimensions—as well as the health and equity implications of tax law since 2018, and legal responses to COVID-19 (2020-2021). She authored Covid and the Law in Aotearoa New Zealand (Thomson Reuters, 2021) and contributed four chapters on public health law to Health Law in New Zealand (Thomson Reuters, 2015). Selected peer-reviewed articles include "International trade and investment law: a new framework for public health and the common good" (BMC Public Health, 2018; with L. Signal and G. Thomson), "Key design features of a new smokefree law to help achieve the Smokefree Aotearoa New Zealand 2025 goal" (New Zealand Medical Journal, 2016; with G. Thomson, N. Wilson, R. Edwards), and "Covid-19: A Planetary Disease" (Peace Magazine, 2020). Delany has taught public health law at Otago for over ten years and developed a global health law course in 2015. Her contributions extend to leadership positions, including Chair of Tax Justice Aotearoa New Zealand (2018-2021) and President of the New Zealand Public Health Association (2016-2017). Awards include the New Zealand Health Research Council Foxley Fellowship (2007), WHO Fellowship (2003), and Chris Highfield Memorial Prize in Public Law (1989).