Dalié Jiménez

Professor Jiménez joined the UConn Law faculty in 2011.  Her interests include empirical and policy work in bankruptcy, commercial law, and consumer financial protection.  Her article, “The Distribution of Assets in Consumer Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Cases,” was published by the peer-reviewed American Bankruptcy Law Journal. The article won the Judge Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing.

She received B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science and political science from MIT and her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was a recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute Award for Outstanding Bankruptcy Student.

Professor Jiménez is currently on leave at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where is serving as a fellow in the Credit Information, Collections, and Deposit Markets group, focusing on debt collection and debt relief services.  Before entering legal academia, she practiced litigation at Ropes & Gray, clerked for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and worked on consumer protection issues at the Massachusetts State Senate.