Dalié Jiménez

Prof. Dalié Jiménez is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law in Irvine, Calif., where she teaches bankruptcy, secured credit, contracts and consumer protection courses. Her research focuses on how law and regulation affect individuals in their financial lives. More concretely, she studies consumer financial distress and bankruptcy, the regulation of financial products, and their intersection with consumer protection and access to civil justice. Prof. Jiménez is one of three principal investigators in the Financial Distress Research Project, a large-scale, longitudinal, randomized control trial evaluating the effectiveness of legal and counseling interventions to help individuals in financial distress. She spent a year as part of the founding staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau working on debt collection, debt relief, credit reporting and student loan issues. Prior to her academic career, she clerked for Hon. Juan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, was a litigation associate at Ropes & Gray in Boston, and worked on consumer-protection issues for a Massachusetts state senator. Prof. Jiménez is a 2018 ABI “40 Under 40” honoree. She received her dual B.S. degrees in electrical engineering/computer science and political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard law School.