Anne C. Dailey

Professor Dailey teaches Family Law, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law, Women and the Law, and seminars focused on law and psychology. She received her B.A. from Yale University in 1983 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987, where she graduated magna cum laude and was Articles Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Jose A. Cabranes, then United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut. After working for two years as a litigation associate at the New Haven law firm of Wiggin & Dana, in 1990 she joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Law. From 2007-08, Professor Dailey served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, followed by her appointment as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2008-2010. Her writings have been published in the Duke Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Texas Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among others. In 2002, she was the recipient of the CORST prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association for best interdisciplinary essay, and the paper was subsequently published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.  Currently she is a Research Fellow at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, and will be a Scholar-in-Residence at the Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center in Fall 2012.  Professor Dailey was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1995 and the Yale Law School in 2009.  Her book, When Rational Minds Difference: Psychoanalysis, Scientific Psychology and Law is forthcoming from Yale University Press.