Dalié Jiménez

Expertise:
Bankruptcy and debtor-creditor law, consumer law, credit and debt collection markets, credit reporting, student loans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, access to civil justice, randomized control trials in law
Background:
Professor Jiménez’s scholarly work focuses on contracts, bankruptcy and consumer financial distress, the regulation of financial products and its intersection with consumer protection, and access to justice. Professor Jiménez uses qualitative and quantitative empirical methods to explore the questions of how individuals cope with financial distress, how and whether our legal framework and institutions help or hinder individuals extricate themselves from this distress, and the role of the legal profession in helping individuals with this and other civil legal problems.
Professor Jiménez is one of a handful of legal academics currently using experimental techniques—randomized control trials—to explore some of these questions. She currently has three such randomized trial experiments in the works at various stages. Along with collaborators, she has raised over $1.4 million in direct and indirect costs for these projects. One of these projects inspired a legal nonprofit startup in New York.
Professor Jiménez spent a year as part of the founding staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau where she worked on debt collection, debt relief, credit reporting, and student loan issues. Prior to her academic career, she clerked for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, was a litigation associate at Ropes & Gray, L.L.P. in Boston, and worked on consumer protection issues at the Massachusetts State Senate.
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- Dalié Jiménez, Ending Perpetual Debts, 55 Hous. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018).
- D. James Greiner, Dalié Jiménez & Lois R. Lupica, Self-Help, Reimagined, 92 Ind. L.J. 1119 (2017).
- Alexei Alexandrov & Dalié Jiménez, Lessons from Bankruptcy Reform in the Private Student Loan Market, 11 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 175 (2017).
- Dalié Jiménez, Dirty Debts Sold Dirt Cheap, 52 Harv. J. on Legis. 41 (2015).
- Dalié Jiménez, The Distribution of Assets in Consumer Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Cases, 83 Am. Bankr. L.J. 795 (2009).
- Sept. 14, 2020:
Panelist, “Race Matters,” Teach-In on Racial Justice and the Law, Cincinnati Law, Online - June 25, 2019
Witness, U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on Oversight of Bankruptcy Law and Legislative Proposals, Washington, DC - May 14, 2019
Speaker, The Student Debt Crisis: Lives on Hold, Portland, OR - Jan. 4, 2019
Speaker, Commercial and Related Consumer Law and Creditors’ and Debtors’ Rights Joint Program - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Past, Present, and Future, 2019 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Oct. 11, 2017
Presenter, “Giving Colleges a Fresh Start: Using the Bankruptcy Code to Retool Higher Education”, American Bankruptcy Law Journal–American Bar Association Symposium, Las Vegas, NV - Oct. 5-6, 2017
Empirical Access to Justice Conference, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC - April 7, 2017
Presenter, “How the Poor Still Pay More: A Re-Examination of Urban Poverty in the Twenty-First Century,” Fordham Urban Law Journal, New York, NY - March 31, 2017
Presenter, “Protecting Consumers in a New Era,” Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ - Jan. 5, 2017
“New Directions in Access to Justice Research—Measuring Outcomes,” Association of American Law Schools, San Francisco, CA
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Prof. Jiménez comments on Biden’s nominee to lead Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- The Regulatory Review: Prof. Jiménez highlighted for law review articles on student debt
- MarketWatch: Prof. Jiménez comments on lawsuit against Navient over billing and late fee practices
- Wall Street Journal: Prof. Jimenez quoted on appellate ruling allowing borrowers to discharge private student loans after filing for bankruptcy
- Consumer Committee of the Bankruptcy Scholars & COVID-19 Committee: Prof. Jimenez sends letter to Congress providing recommendations to protect households from debt collection, foreclosure, eviction and bankruptcy
- MarketWatch: Prof. Jimenez comments on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau settlements with companies, individuals accused of illegally charging student-loan borrowers
- MarketWatch: Prof. Jimenez quoted on how the CARES Act has impacted credit scores of student-loan borrowers
- The Conversation: Prof. Jimenez co-writes piece on expected wave of personal bankruptcies due
- The FinReg Blog: Prof. Jimenez co-writes piece on coronavirus pandemic, the CARES Act and debt
- Bloomberg Law: Prof. Jimenez co-writes column proposing plan to ensure Americans keep their homes and avoid eviction
- Illinois Law Review: Prof. Jimenez co-writes article examining the CARES Act
- Harvard Law Review Blog: Prof. Jimenez co-authors piece on protecting coronavirus relief payments from debt collectors
- Business Insider: Prof. Jimenez quoted on the end of Elizabeth’s Warren presidential campaign
- Daily Journal: Profs. Glater and Jimenez column: With AB 376 California can help respond to the student debt crisis
- Real Clear Politics: Prof. Jimenez quoted on lack of statistics on minority borrowers of private student loans
- UCI Law: UCI Law Professor Dalié Jiménez Elected to American Law Institute
- UCI Law: Prof. Jiménez to Testify Before House Committee on Financial Services
- UCI Law: Prof. Jiménez Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee on Student Debt, Bankruptcy
- ABI Podcast: LISTEN: Prof. Jiménez discusses ABI Commission Report and student loans
- MarketWatch: Prof. Jiménez comments on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s tweet highlighting forbearance
- MarketWatch: Prof. Jiménez comments on proposed changes in bankruptcy rules, student loan borrowers
- MarketWatch: Prof. Jiménez comments on district court judge opinion in lawsuit against Navient
- Law 360: Prof. Jiménez comments on Justice Kavanaugh’s past opinions in class action lawsuits
- MarketWatch: Prof. Jiménez comments on settlement between FTC and SoFi over refinancing claims
- Telemundo: Prof. Jiménez comments on CA Attorney General’s amicus brief in support of students affected by Corinthian Colleges
- Univision: Prof. Jiménez comments on amicus brief filed in Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos
- California Department of Justice: WATCH: Prof. Jiménez joins CA Attorney General in press conference supporting students defrauded by Corinthian Colleges
- UCI Law: Prof. Jiménez named among ABI’s 2018 “40 Under 40”
- Morning Star: Prof. Jiménez comments federal student loan disclosures, lawsuit against Navient
- MarketWatch: Prof. Jiménez comments on class-action lawsuit against student loan company Navient
- Washington Post: Prof. Jiménez comments on Panera’s data breach, risk of loyalty programs
- MarketWatch: Can this blob help people fight debt collectors?
- Stamford Advocate: New study set to assess debt in Connecticut
- Law 360: Justices Stem Tide Of Suits Against Stale Debt Collectors
- MarketWatch: This class-action lawsuit may offer hope for student loan borrowers in bankruptcy
- Hartford Courant: Jepsen Joins Effort to Block Trump Order As More Refugees Arrive In State
- Stamford Advocate: Synchrony faces new normal of larger losses